PHP Date and Time Examples

PHP date and time function examples.

Format today's date in several ways

                
                    <?php
                    echo "Today is " . date("Y/m/d") . "<br>";
                    echo "Today is " . date("Y.m.d") . "<br>";
                    echo "Today is " . date("Y-m-d") . "<br>";
                    echo "Today is " . date("l");
                    ?>
                
                

PHP Date and Time Examples

PHP date and time function examples.

Automatically update the copyright year on your website

                
                    © 2010-<?php echo date("Y");?>
                
                

Output the current time (server time)

                
                    <?php
                    echo "The time is " . date("h:i:sa");
                    ?>
                
                

Set timezone, then output current time

                
                    <?php
                    date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
                    echo "The time is " . date("h:i:sa");
                    ?>
                
                

Create a date and time from a number of parameters in mktime()

                
                    <?php
                    $d=mktime(11, 14, 54, 8, 12, 2014);
                    echo "Created date is " . date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", $d);
                    ?>
                
                

Create a date and time from the strtotime() function

                
                    <?php
                    $d=strtotime("10:30pm April 15 2014");
                    echo "Created date is " . date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", $d);
                    ?>
                
                

Create more dates/times from strtotime()

                
                    <?php
                    $d=strtotime("tomorrow");
                    echo date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", $d) . "<br>";
                    
                    $d=strtotime("next Saturday");
                    echo date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", $d) . "<br>";
                    
                    $d=strtotime("+3 Months");
                    echo date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", $d) . "<br>";
                    ?>
                
                

Output the dates for the next six Saturdays

                
                    <?php
                    $startdate=strtotime("Saturday");
                    $enddate=strtotime("+6 weeks", $startdate);
                    
                    while ($startdate < $enddate) {
                      echo date("M d", $startdate) . "<br>";
                      $startdate = strtotime("+1 week", $startdate);
                    }
                    ?>
                
                

Output the number of days until 4th of July

                
                    <?php
                    $d1=strtotime("July 04");
                    $d2=ceil(($d1-time())/60/60/24);
                    echo "There are " . $d2 ." days until 4th of July.";
                    ?>