Dates are very simple in PHP and are easy to
get the hang on but not so easy to remember all the variables to the
dates as you will see further on in this tutorial. Please remember that
the letters ARE case sensitive.
PHP Time and Date
Dates
Dates are very simple in PHP and are easy to get the hang on but not
so easy to remember all the variables to the dates as you will see
further on in this tutorial.
In PHP time and dates, you use different letters to display different
formats of the date as shown below. Remember that the time and date
will be the one that the server is set to.
Please remember that the letters ARE case sensitive. So g and G are two different things.
<?php
// This will display something like June
// F simply means the full name of the month (January-December)
echo date("F");
?>
If you wanted to display something a little longer than just the month, you can also input code such as below.
<?php
echo date("l dS of F Y");
?>
This will display something like Wednesday 19th of December 2005.
l = Full Day
d = Date
s = Suffix of the date (st, th)
F = Full Month
Y = Full year
As you may have noticed you can out real words in such as of and it
will not affect the code but is advised to put most of the code outside
the date tag.
Time
Time can also be displayed as below:
<?php
// Could display 07:25:56 PM
echo date("h:i:s A");
?>
Extras - Variables
You also put date as a variable.
<?php
$time = date("l dS of F Y");
// Could display 07:25:56 PM
echo $time;
?>
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