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Checking if date is weekend PHP

To check if a date is a weekend in PHP, you can use the date function to get the day of the week for a given date and then check if it is either 0 (Sunday) or 6 (Saturday).

To check if a date is a weekend in PHP, you can use the date function to get the day of the week for a given date and then check if it is either 0 (Sunday) or 6 (Saturday).

Here is an example of how you can do this:

Example of checking if a date is weekend in PHP

php— editable, runs on the server

This will output The date is not a weekend for the given date.

Alternatively, you can use the DateTime class to check if a date is a weekend. Here is an example of how you can do this:

Example of checking if a date is weekend with dateTime class in PHP

php— editable, runs on the server

This will also output The date is not a weekend for the given date.