PHP Date function


 

PHP Date function

PHP Date function tutorial gives you examples and a table of date format

PHP Date function tutorial gives you examples and a table of date format

PHP Date Function

In this section we will show you the different formatting options available in the PHP Date function

PHP date() function provides many formatting options. You can use the options to format the date output in the required format.

The general format is: string date ( string $date [, int timestamp]  )

Following tables shows formats and its description in the PHP.

FORMAT

DESCRIPTION 

VALUE RETURNED

DATE d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 through31
j Day of the month but with no leading zeros 1 to 31
D A textual representation of day Mon through Sun
l Full textual representation of the day Monday to Sunday
w Numeric representation of the day 0 = Sunday,......,6 = Saturday
The day of the year 0 through 365
WEEK W ISO-8601 week number of year 38 (The 38th week of year)
MONTH m Numeric representation of month, with leading zeros 01 through 12
n Numeric representation of month, without leading zeros 1 through 12
F Textual representation of month January through December
M Short Textual representation of month Jan through Dec
t No. of days of given month 28 through 31
YEAR Y Full numeric representation of year 1988, 2000, 2009 etc.
y Short numeric representation of year 99, 09 etc.
TIME a Lowercase am or pm am or pm
A Uppercase am or pm AM or PM
g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros  1 through 12
G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0 through 23
h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros  01 through 12
H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00 through 23
TIME ZONE e Timezone identifier (included in PHP 5.1.0) UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores
O Difference with Greenwich Mean Time in hours  Example: +530
P Difference with Greenwich Mean Time in hours with a colon (included in PHP 5.1.3)    Example: +5:30

 

 

Following example code shows how you can use the format options to display the formatted date. Our program will display the dates in two formats:

a) October 9, 2009, Friday,12:34 pm

b)  it is tenth month of the year

PHP Date formatting example code:

<?php

echo ("<B>Different format of Date is given below </b><br>");

echo ("<br>");

echo ("<br>");

 

/*If we want to get date format as October 9, 2009, Friday, 5:55 pm</b>*/

echo ("<br>");

echo date("F j, Y, l,g:i a");

echo ("<br>");

 

0

/*We can print any message using date function as follows:</b>*/

echo ("<br>");

1

 

echo date ('\i\t \i\s \t\e\n\t\h \m\o\n\t\h \o\f \t\h\e \y\e\a\r');

2

echo ("<br>");

?>

3

 

Output:

Different format of Date is given below


October 9, 2009, Friday,12:34 pm
it is tenth month of the year

4

With the help of above example and table given above we can get any kind of required date format. 

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