Displaying Date and Time using PHP

Note 1: You don't have to know PHP programming to do this tutorial.

Note 2: I assume that your server supports files with .php extension. If not, you won't be able to do this tutorial. For more info on how to install PHP on your PC go to PHP.net

Type exactly like below in Notepad or any other HTML Editor and save it as date.php in your localhost.

Let's go through the code, anything between <?php and ?> is considered as a php code by the browser. First we are assigning today's date to a variable called $today, then on the next line we are displaying it to the browser. echo is php code to display any data on the browser.

As you have noticed already, ("d M Y h:i A") is a date format that we have constructed. d is for displaying day, M is for month, and Y is for year, h is for hour and i is for minute, and finally A is for displaying AM or PM.

Thisis just a one way of displaying the date and time, there are many otherforms that you can create yourself. Also there are several differentforms of displaying one data, for example you can display the currentmonth as "February" of "Feb" or "02", it is all up to you how you wantto display it.

Below is the additional php codes for displaying date and time

Format	Description	Returned Values
a	Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	am or pm
A	Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	AM or PM
B	Swatch Internet time	000 through 999
d	Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros	01 to 31
D	A textual representation of a day, three letters	Mon through Sun
F	A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March	January through December
g	12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	1 through 12
G	24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	0 through 23
h	12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	01 through 12
H	24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	00 through 23
i	Minutes with leading zeros	00 to 59
I (capital i)	Whether or not the date is in daylights savings time	1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise.
j	Day of the month without leading zeros	1 to 31
l (lowercase 'L')	A full textual representation of the day of the week	Sunday through Saturday
L	Whether it's a leap year	1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
m	Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros	01 through 12
M	A short textual representation of a month, three letters	Jan through Dec
n	Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros	1 through 12
O	Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours	Example: +0200
r	RFC 822 formatted date	Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
s	Seconds, with leading zeros	00 through 59
S	English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters	st , nd , rd or th . Works well with j
t	Number of days in the given month	28 through 31
T	Timezone setting of this machine	Examples: EST , MDT ...
U	Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)	See also time()
w	Numeric representation of the day of the week	0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
W	ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (added in PHP 4.1.0)	Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Y	A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits	Examples: 1999 or 2003
y	A two digit representation of a year	Examples: 99 or 03
z	The day of the year (starting from 0)	0 through 365
Z	Timezoneoffset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is alwaysnegative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.	-43200 through 43200

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