date(): PHP Date Today with time![]() date("date format",[timestamp]) The output of the above command is: 05/31/23 Use of PHP timestamp in the date function is optional. If timestamp is not given then by default it takes the current timestamp or time(). To display the date in above format we have used the date format like this date("m/d/y") This will format the display to month / day / year format. We can change the display to any other format we want with use of different characters to format the string. You will get a list of such characters used for formatting the date is listed at the end of this page. Let us display the todays date with the present time using the date format characters in a better way. May 31, 2023, 7:25 pm Refresh your browser window to see how the time is changing. Here is the code used to display the above date and time. date("F j, Y, g:i a") Displaying Present Month
The output is here.
Displaying Last Month
Displaying 2nd Last Month
Present Day of the Week
The output is here.
Present Day of the Month
The output is here.
Time elapsed in seconds since Unix Epoch
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This is same as output of time() function. You can try more such outputs by using different date formats Format for MySQL datetime fieldMySQL datetime field stores date with time. Here is the format required to store data in this field.
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