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Return the name of a day as a string

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That snippet return the name of the day (in Italian, but you can easily change that). Giving a value to $offset permits to refer to a day that isn't today, and setting $short to True permits to return a three character shorthand.

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  1. function giorni_ita( $short=false, $offset=0 ){
  2. 	$week = ( 1 => 'Lunedì', 2 => 'Martedì', 3 => 'Mercoledì', 
  3. 			4 => 'Giovedì', 5 => 'Venerdì', 6 => 'Sabato', 7 => 'Domenica' );
  4. 	$weekshort = ( 1 => 'Lun', 2 => 'Mar', 3 => 'Mer', 4 => 'Gio', 5 => 'Ven', 6 => 'Sab', 7 => 'Dom' );
  5. 	$day = (date('N')+$offset < 1) ? 7+date('N')+$offset : ((date('N')+$offset>7) ? date('N')+$offset-7 : date('N')+$offset);
  6.  
  7. 	return $short ? $weekshort[$day] : $week[$day];
  8. }

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