date(): Today's date & time in different formats by date function using timestamp

date(): PHP Date Today with time

PHP can generate today date and time in different formats. Here is a simple date command in PHP to display today date.
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

echo date('M');

The output is here.

May

Displaying Last Month

echo date('M',strtotime("first day of last month"));

Apr

Displaying 2nd Last Month

echo date('M',strtotime("last day of -2 month"));

Mar

Present Day of the Week

echo date('l');

The output is here.

Wednesday

Present Day of the Month

echo date('d');

The output is here.

Time elapsed in seconds since Unix Epoch

echo date('U');

Output is here ( refresh this page and see the change )

1685561107

This is same as output of time() function.
You can try more such outputs by using different date formats

Format for MySQL datetime field

MySQL datetime field stores date with time. Here is the format required to store data in this field.

$tdtp=date("Y-m-d  H:i:s",time());

Here is the output ( refresh this page and see the change )

2023-05-31  19:25:07

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