Sunday, January 21, 2018

PHP Date and Time Function for BCA,B.Sc(IT),MCA,M.Sc(IT) and all IT Students


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PHP Date & Time function


No
Name
Description
1
date()
It returns a current system date & time according to the given format.
Syntax: date(string format)
Ex: date(“m.d.y”);
2
getdate()
It returns current date & time information in associative array format like
Seconds   - Numeric representation of seconds 0 to 59
Minutes - Numeric representation of minutes 0 to 59
Hours - Numeric representation of hours 0 to 23
Mday - Numeric representation of the day of month 1 to 31
Wday - Numeric representation of   the day of week     0(Sunday)     
               to 6(Saturday)
Mon - Numeric representation of month 1 to 12
Year - A full numeric representation of the day of the year-4  
              Digits 1999 or 2003
Yday - Numeric representation of the day of the year   0 to 365
Weekday - A full textual representation of the day of the week
                    Sunday to Saturday
Month - A full textual representation of the month       January to
              December
3
checkdate()
It returns true if the given date is valid otherwise it returns false.
Syntax: checkdate(int month,int day,int year)
Ex: checkdate(12,31,2000);
4
Time()
It returns the current unix time stamp which is measured in the number of seconds since unix time stamp.
Syntax: time():
Ex:
<?php
     nextweek=time() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60);
     echo ‘now:                     ‘.date(‘Y-m-d’);
     echo ‘next week:   ‘.date(‘Y-m-d’,$nextweek);
?>
5
mktime()
It returns the unix time stamp corresponding to the argument given.
Syntax: int mktime([int hour[,int minute[,int second[,int month[,int day[,int year]]]]]]);
Ex: date[‘m-d-y’ mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1998);
6
date_add()
The date_add() function adds some days, months, years, hours, minutes, and seconds to a date.
Syntax
date_add(object,interval);

Example

Add 40 days to the 15th of March, 2015:
<?php
$date=date_create("2015-03-15");
date_add($date,date_interval_create_from_date_string("40 days"));
echo date_format($date,"Y-m-d");
?>
7
date_create ()
The date_create () function returns a new DateTime object.

Syntax

date_create(time,timezone);

Example

Return a new DateTime object, and then format the date:
<?php
$date=date_create("2013-03-15");
echo date_format($date,"Y/m/d");
?>
8
date_format()
The date_format() function returns a date formatted according to the specified format.

Syntax

date_format(object,format);

Example

Return a new DateTime object, and then format the date:
<?php
$date=date_create("2013-03-15");
echo date_format($date,"Y/m/d H:i:s");
?>
9
gmdate()
The gmdate() function formats a GMT/UTC date and time, and returns the formatted date string.
(GMT:Greenwich Mean Time or UTC: Universal Time Coordinated)

Syntax

gmdate(format,timestamp);

Example

Format a GMT/UTC date and time and return the formatted date strings:
<?php
// Prints the day
echo gmdate("l") . "<br>";

// Prints the day, date, month, year, time, AM or PM
echo gmdate("l jS \of F Y h:i:s A");
?>
d - The day of the month (from 01 to 31)
D - A textual representation of a day (three letters)
j - The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31)
l (lowercase 'L') - A full textual representation of a day
N - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday, 7 for Sunday)
S - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j)
w - A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday)
z - The day of the year (from 0 through 365)
W - The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday)
F - A full textual representation of a month (January through December)
m - A numeric representation of a month (from 01 to 12)
M - A short textual representation of a month (three letters)
n - A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12)
t - The number of days in the given month
L - Whether it's a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise)
o - The ISO-8601 year number
Y - A four digit representation of a year
y - A two digit representation of a year
a - Lowercase am or pm
A - Uppercase AM or PM

10
localtime()
The localtime() function returns the local time.

Syntax

localtime(timestamp,is_assoc);

Example

<?php
print_r(localtime());
echo "<br><br>";
print_r(localtime(time(),true));
?>
11
strftime()
The strftime() function formats a local time and/or date according to local settings.

Syntax

strftime(format,timestamp);

Example

<?php
echo(strftime("%B %d %Y, %X %Z",mktime(20,0,0,12,31,98))."<br>");
//setlocale(LC_ALL,
"hu_HU.UTF8");
echo(strftime("%Y. %B %d. %A. %X %Z"));
?>

%a - abbreviated weekday name
%A - full weekday name
%b - abbreviated month name
%B - full month name
%c - preferred date and time representation
%d - day of the month (01 to 31)
%D - same as %m/%d/%y
%e - day of the month (1 to 31)
%g - like %G, but without the century
%H - hour, using a 24-hour clock (00 to 23)
%I - hour, using a 12-hour clock (01 to 12)
%m - month (01 to 12)
%M – minute
%n - newline character
%r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation
%R - time in 24 hour notation
%S - second
%t - tab character
%T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
%u - weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1.
%X- Preferred time representation for current local without date
%y- Year as a decimal number within range 00 to 99
%Z- time zone or name or abbreviation

12
strptime()
The strptime() function parses a time/date generated with strftime().
Note: This function is not implemented on Windows platforms!

Syntax

strptime(date,format);

Example

Parse a time/date generated with strftime():
<?php
$format="%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S";
$strf=strftime($format);
echo("$strf");
print_r(strptime($strf,$format));
?>
13
strtotime()
The strtotime() function parses an English textual datetime into a Unix
Timestamp. (the number of seconds since January 1 1970).

Syntax

strtotime(time,now);

Example

<?php
echo(strtotime("now") . "<br>");
echo(strtotime("14 July 2016")."<br>");
echo(strtotime("+5 hours")."<br>");
?>
14
gettimeofday()
The gettimeofday() function returns the current time from the system call like,
“sec”-seconds
“usec”-microseconds

Syntax

gettimeofday(return_float);

Example

<?php
         print_r(gettimeofday());
?>
15
Setdate()
It is used to set the date.
Syntax
date setdate(year,month,day)
Example
<?php
         echo setdate(2016,07,14);
?>


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