title: Could we strtotime() with a variable contianing only month and the day of the year and get the textual representation of the day of the week from it?
body: <p>Could we strtotime() with a variable contianing only month and the day of the year and get the textual representation of the day of the week from it? ?
  this is my try:</p>
  
  <pre><code>function something
  {
      $sale_date=date('md');
      if($this-&gt;isSat($sale_date))
      {
          ------;
      }
  }
  
  
  function isSat($sale_date)
  {
      $sale_date_time=strtotime($sale_date);
      $day=date('l',$sale_date_time);
      if($day=='Saturday')
      {return true;}
  }
  </code></pre>