date() Function and it's Parameter

[meijör 7]

Hey everyone.

In this litte Tutorial I'll show you how to handle the date() function.

The date function needs 2 Parameter, the first is a string in which you specify how the date shall look like.

As example Monday the 2. March, 2010.

The second parameter is a unixtimestamp. (The unix timestamp of the actual second in PHP is capable with the time() function.)

 

The following parameter are available:

 

d : day as number without starting zero ( ex : 3 )

j : day as number with starting zero ( ex : 03 )

w : weekday as number 0-6

m : month as number with starting zero ( ex : 01,04,11 )

n : month as number without starting zero ( ex : 1,4,11)

D : 3 starting letters of the weekday as word (english) ( ex : mon )

l : weekday outwritten (english) (ATTENTION: small "L" no big "i")

F : 3 starting letters of the month as word ( ex : jan, dec )

M : Month in english outwritten

y : year with 2 last numbers ( ex : 08,09,11)

Y : Year with 4 numbers ( ex : 2009)

s : seconds, number with starting zero ( 00-59)

i : minutes, number with starting zero ( 00-59)

H : Hour in 24h form with starting zero ( 01-23 )

G : Hour in 24h form without starting zero ( 1-23 )

 

Okay enough of that theoretic shit.

 

My fave example is the example as a clock wich shows the actual time, often used in Homepages.

The code for this looks like this :

 

<?
$now = time(); /*saves the timestamp of this very moment in the variable "now"*/
$time = date ("d.m.Y - H:i:s",$now);

?>
HTML BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB blablabla(...)
and now on the position you wanna have the date:
<?
echo ("$time");
?>

 

 

I hope it helped, for quesions just ask )

[Kvn'X 222]

Nice help for newcomer

[meijör 7]

this is what is was meant to be

[House 3]

Nice one

[♦Қוllзг♦ 3]

Niceee!! =D