php? get the starting date of a month?

[LEXGRAPHICS]

hey guys im trying to develop a dynamic calendar, now i have all the php/mysql/flash knowledge necesary, but i am missing an important piece of info. to make this calendar truly dynamic. i want to be able to see what day of the week does each month start at,

whether its a sunday, monday,t,turs,fri,or sat. so that i can start day 1 from there. and i already know to set the months lengths and the february how to check for leap years.

any help would be greatly appreciated, is there some sort of formula to do this?

thanks in advance.

[Musicman]

Hi,

in flash set a new Date object to the first of a month and then use getDay() to retrieve day of week

Musicman

[LEXGRAPHICS]

i set as new date date object.

myDate = new Date()

then how do i use the getDay, dont i haveto supply it a month and a year????

do you have a code example or is in in the flash help area?

thanks

[Musicman]

Hi,

myDate = new Date(2004, 7, 1);

Note that days count from 1 and months count from 0

Musicman