PHP and MySQL Web Development 4th Ed-tqw-_darksiderg

Getting the Date and Time from PHP
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Using the getdate() Function
Another date-determining function you might find useful is getdate().This function
has the following prototype:
array getdate ([int timestamp])
It takes an optional timestamp as a parameter and returns an array representing the parts
of that date and time, as shown in Table 21.2.
Table 21.2
Key
Array Key-Value Pairs from getdate() Function
Value
seconds Seconds, numeric
minutes Minutes, numeric
hours Hours, numeric
mday Day of the month, numeric
wday Day of the week, numeric
mon Month, numeric
year Year, numeric
yday Day of the year, numeric
weekday Day of the week, full-text format
month Month, full-text format
0 Timestamp, numeric
After you have these parts in an array, you can easily process them into any required
format.The 0 element in the array (the timestamp) might seem useless, but if you call
getdate() without a parameter, it will give you the current timestamp.
Using the getdate() function, the code
produces something similar to the following output:
Array (
[seconds] => 45
[minutes] => 6
[hours] => 20
[mday] => 14
[wday] => 3
[mon] => 3
[year] => 2007
[yday] => 72
[weekday] => Wednesday
[month] => March
[0] => 1173917205
)