#! code

Finding the next day of the week from a given date can involve some complicated loops and if statements. In PHP it is made quite easy through the use of the strtotime() function. This function, which is part of the PHP core since version 4, can take just about any string representation of the time and convert it into a Unix timestamp.

Netbeans is a great IDE and with every version lots more features are introduced that make it even better. One thing that I like to use is the code templates, which have been available from version 6.5. Code templates allows you to type a simple command and get a section of code. What commands you can use depend on what version of Netbeans you are using and which programming language you focused on. As a PHP developer I usually download the PHP version, which comes with a set of PHP code templates.

Much like using Alt+. to print out last parameter you can also use !$ to use the last parameter from the previous command. Here is a simple example.