Return the Unix timestamp for a date. Then use it to find the day of that date in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to return the Unix timestamp for a date. Then use it to find the day of that date.

Example

  
<?php
    echo "Oct 3, 2014 was on a ".date("l", mktime(0,0,0,10,3,2014));
?>

The code above generates the following result.