The date () function of PHP is used to format the time or date

PHP Date () function

The PHP date () function formats the timestamp as a more readable date and time.

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Syntax date (format,timestamp) parameter describes the format required. Specify the format of the timestamp. Timestamp optional. Specify a timestamp. The default is the current date and time. PHP Date-What is a timestamp (Timestamp)?

The timestamp is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 (unlimited GMT). It is also known as the Unix timestamp (Unix Timestamp).

PHP Date-format Date

The first parameter of the date () function prescribes how the date/time is formatted. It uses letters to indicate the format of dates and times. Here are some of the letters available:

D-Day of the month (01-31) m-Current month, in Digital (01-12) Y-current year (four digits)

You can find all the letters available in the format parameters in our PHP Date reference manual.

You can insert other characters between letters, such as "/", "." or "-", so you can add additional formatting:

<?php echo Date ("y/m/d"); echo "<br/>"; echo Date ("Y.M.D"); echo "<br/>"; echo Date ("y-m-d");?>

The output of the above code is similar to this:

2006/07/11 2006.07.11 2006-07-11 PHP Date-add timestamp

The second parameter of the date () function sets a timestamp. This parameter is optional. If you do not provide a timestamp, the current time will be used.

In our example, we'll use the Mktime () function to create a timestamp for tomorrow.

The Mktime () function returns the Unix timestamp for the specified date.

Grammar mktime (HOUR,MINUTE,SECOND,MONTH,DAY,YEAR,IS_DST)

To get a time stamp for one day, we can just set the Mktime () function's date argument:

<?php $tomorrow = mktime (0,0,0,date ("M"), Date ("D") +1,date ("Y")); echo "Tomorrow is". Date ("y/m/d", $tomorrow);?>

The output of the above code is similar to this:

tomorrow is 2006/07/12.