There are some functions that are useful for doing this. They are
date()
,strtotime()
, mktime()
.mktime
will return the unix timestamp from the arguments passed into it, e.g. one can give it minutes, hours, days,months, years: mktime(0,0,0,3,20,2004)
which is "20/03/2004 00:00:00"
will be 1079737200
.date
will return a string formatted according to the given format. Several arguments can be given, including "Y"
for 2009
while "y"
gives 09
etc. Examples:$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a"); // March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
$today = date("m.d.y"); // 03.10.01
$today = date("j, n, Y"); // 10, 3, 2001
$today = date("Ymd"); // 20010310
Or
date("d, m, Y", mktime(0,0,0,3,20,2004)) // 20, 03, 2004
date("d, m, Y", strtotime("now")) // 03, 11, 2009 )
Or
currentWeek = date("W", strtotime("now")) //45 for 03.11.2009
strtotime
will take a string and try to convert it into a unix timestamp. An example is "now"
which will give the time right now in unix timestamp. Other examples are strtotime("10 September 2000")
and strtotime("+1 day")
.Sources: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php, http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php, http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
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