Topic awaiting preservation: PHP: Date script

I'm mostly an ASP developer, and I've been stuck with a php project. I've just started picking up on php a few days ago, so I apologize that my question is pretty elementary. Basically, I want to convert a javascript calendar to php. Here's the code for the javascript calendar:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
now = new Date()
if (now.getDay() == 5)
document.write("Today is Friday. Information for Friday goes here.")
if (now.getDay() == 6)
document.write("Today is Saturday. Information for Saturday goes here.")
if (now.getDay() == 0)
document.write("Today is Sunday. Information for Sunday goes here.")
if (now.getDay() == 1)
document.write("Today is Monday. Information for Monday goes here.")
if (now.getDay() == 2)
document.write("Today is Tuesday. Information for Tuesday goes here.")
if (now.getDay() == 3)
document.write("Today is Wednesday. Information for Tuesday goes here.")
if (now.getDay() == 4)
document.write("Today is Thursday. Information for Tuesday goes here.")
</script>

I know, simple. Yeah, simple for me if it was ASP or ASP.NET, but no, alas it's PHP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

the php date function in conjunction with the appropriate format string (w, I believe) should get you started.