How to use date in PHP

Posted in PHP | PHP Basic on August 07, 2019

Tags: date function in PHP, PHP, Date function

In this article I am going to explain about use of date function in PHP.

PHP Date() function

The php date function allow programmer or developers to manipulate date in easy way.

Syntax of PHP date function

date(format,timestamp)

Parameters in date function

format

The format of the outputted date string.
timestamp

It is an optional parameter in date function and its specifies a timestamp.

Format of the date function

There are following format of date function

Format character	Description
d	Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zero.(01 to 31)
m	Numeric representation of a month,with leading zero (01 to 12)
Y	A full numeric representation of a year,4 digit (four digit)

Example of date function

<html>

<head>

<body>

<?php

echo date("Y/m/d") . "<br />";

echo date("Y.m.d") . "<br />";

echo date("Y-m-d");

</body>
</head>
</html>

Output:

date fun.jpg

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