string date(string format, int timestamp);Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given timestamp or the current local time if no timestamp is given.
The following characters are recognized in the format string:
a - "am" or "pm"
A - "AM" or "PM"
d - day of the month, numeric, 2 digits (with leading zeros)
D - day of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Fri"
F - month, textual, long; i.e. "January"
h - hour, numeric, 12 hour format
H - hour, numeric, 24 hour format
i - minutes, numeric
j - day of the month, numeric, without leading zeros
l (lowercase 'L') - day of the week, textual, long; i.e. "Friday"
m - month, numeric
M - month, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Jan"
s - seconds, numeric
S - English ordinal suffix, textual, 2 characters; i.e. "th", "nd"
U - seconds since the epoch
Y - year, numeric, 4 digits
w - day of the week, numeric, 0 represents Sunday
y - year, numeric, 2 digits
z - day of the year, numeric; i.e. "299"
Example 1. date() example print(date( "l dS of F Y h:i:s A" ));
print("July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0,0,0,7,1,2000))); |
It is possible to use date() and mktime() together to find dates in the future or the past.
Example 2. date() and mktime() example $tomorrow = mktime(0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")+1,date("Y"));
$lastmonth = mktime(0,0,0,date("m")-1,date("d"), date("Y"));
$nextyear = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"), date("d", date("Y")+1); |
To format dates in other languages, you should use the setlocale() and strftime() functions.