PHP - Date & Time

<?php
   $date_array = getdate();
   
   foreach ( $date_array as $key => $val ){
      print "$key = $val<br />";
   }
	
   $formated_date  = "Today s date: ";
   $formated_date .= $date_array[ mday ] . "/";
   $formated_date .= $date_array[ mon ] . "/";
   $formated_date .= $date_array[ year ];
   
   print $formated_date;
?>

This will produce following result −

seconds = 10
minutes = 29
hours = 9
mday = 5
wday = 1
mon = 12
year = 2016
yday = 339
weekday = Monday
month = December
0 = 1480930150
Today s date: 5/12/2016

Converting a Time Stamp with date()

The date() function returns a formatted string representing a date. You can exercise an enormous amount of control over the format that date() returns with a string argument that you must pass to it.

date(format,timestamp)

The date() optionally accepts a time stamp if omitted then current date and time will be used. Any other data you include in the format string passed to date() will be included in the return value.

Following table psts the codes that a format string can contain −

Example

Try out following example

<?php
   print date("m/d/y G.i:s<br>", time());
   echo "<br>";
   print "Today is ";
   print date("j of F Y, a\t g.i a", time());
?>

12/05/16 9:29:47
Today is 5 2016f December 2016 at 9:29 am