What is the best approach in PHP to determine if it is a weekday or weekend?

To determine if a given date is a weekday or weekend in PHP, you can use the `date` function to get the day of the week (0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday) and then check if it falls within the range of weekdays (1-5) or weekends (0,6). 

$date = date('w', strtotime('2022-01-01')); // Get the day of the week (0-6) for a specific date
if ($date == 0 || $date == 6) {
    echo "Weekend";
} else {
    echo "Weekday";
}

Keywords

PHP weekday weekend date function

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