Try this code for following purpose
- Get all days and dates for the selected month of a year using php
- How to get full day name from date in php
- Get day name from date in PHP
Just Follow below step and you will Get day name from date in PHP or print all dates, days of current month
### Step1: 
 
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
$month = date('m');
$year = date('Y');
$cur_date = date('Y-m-d');
$d = $day_count =cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN,$month,$year);
$cdate=date('d');
?>
### Step2:
    <?php
        $day = 1;
        while($d){             
            ?>
                    <p>
                        <?php 
                        if($day=="$cdate") {
                            echo "<b>".$dated = ($day++.' '.(date("M Y")))."</b>";
                        } 
                        else 
                        {
                            echo $dated = ($day++.' '.(date("M Y"))); 
                        }
                        echo '('.$day_name = date('D', strtotime($dated)).')';
                        ?>
                            
                    </p>
                        
    <?php  $d--; } ?> 