Try this code for following purpose

  1. Get all days and dates for the selected month of a year using php
  2. How to get full day name from date in php
  3. 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--; } ?>