How to create IF sentence using days?

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How to create IF sentence using days?

toplisek

10:20 am on Jan 20, 2026 (gmt 0)

I have a loop and within a loop there are quoted just two options:
$variable = $index === 0 ? 'Today' : 'Tomorrow';
As I have 10 days forecast, how to modify a line within loop to 8 or 10 days?
Today
Tomorrow
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
etc.

No5needinput

3:06 pm on Jan 20, 2026 (gmt 0)

ChatGPT suggestion...

$dayLabels = ['Today', 'Tomorrow'];

for ($index = 0; $index < 10; $index++) {
 if ($index >= 2) {
 $dayLabels[$index] = date('l', strtotime("+$index days"));
 }

 $variable = $dayLabels[$index];
}

Output example:

Today
Tomorrow
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday

------------------

Index 0 → Today
Index 1 → Tomorrow
Index 2+ → Calculated weekday name
Automatically scales to any number of days

toplisek

11:56 am on Jan 21, 2026 (gmt 0)

So, this should work:
$dayLabels = $index === 0 ? 'Today' : 'Tomorrow';
for ($index = 0; $index < 10; $index++) {
if ($index >= 2) {$dayLabels[$index] = date('l', strtotime("+$index days"));}
$label = $dayLabels[$index];
}
echo "
<div class='" "'>$label</div>
";