Date in PHP

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Date in PHP

In this tutorial you will learn how to used  date function   in a PHP web application. The date/time functions are part of the PHP core. There is no installation needed to use these functions. The date/time functions allow you to extract and format the date and time on the server.

              In this tutorial used  different  date format function and 'date("d/m/Y h:i:s")' function return's  date  and time. In this tutorial use checkdate()  that return true if date is valid another return's false. date("l")  return's current day  and 'date_default_timezone_get("void")'  return's the default time zone. Example code given below :

<?php
echo "<b>Date:</b>". "<br />";
echo "date=>".date("Y/m/d") . "<br />";
echo "date=>".date("Y.m.d") . "<br />";
echo "date=>".date("Y-m-d")."<br />";

echo "<b>Date and Time:</b>". "<br />";
echo "date and time=>".date("d/m/Y h:i:s")."<br />";

echo "<b>Check Date:</b>". "<br />"."12,31,2000=>";
var_dump(checkdate(12,31,2000))."eeeeee";
echo "<br />"."2,29,2003=>";
var_dump(checkdate(2,29,2003));
echo "<br />"."2,29,2004=>";
var_dump(checkdate(2,29,2004));
echo "<br />";

echo "<b>Day:</b>". "<br />";
echo(date("l") . "<br />");

echo "<b>Default Timezone:</b>". "<br />";
echo(date_default_timezone_get("void"))."<br />";

?>

Output:-

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