php programs: Time and date functions

Some of the most useful parameters are:

date("y")

Returns the current year from a date - with today's date, it returns: 12

date("m")

Returns the current month from a date - with today's date, it returns: 10

date("n")

Returns the current month from a date without leading zeroes ( eg. "1" instead of "01") - with today's date, it returns: 10

date("F")

Returns the current month name from a date - with today's date, it returns: October

date("d")

Returns the current day of the month from a date - with today's date, it returns: 25

date("l")

Returns the name of the current weekday from a date - with today's date, it returns: Thursday

date("w")

Returns the current day of the week from a date - with today's date, it returns: 4

date("H")

Returns the current hour from a time - with the current time, it returns: 11

date("i")

Returns the current minute from a time - with the current time, it returns: 42

date("s")

Returns the current second from a time - with the current time, it returns: 41

sample Program :

<html>
   <head>
 <title>time and date</title>
   </head>
 <body>

     <?php  
 
        echo mktime (2,56,0,7,21,1969);

      ?>

 </body>
</html>

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