Display The Current Date/time - With a simple PHP code

<?php

  $date = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');

  echo "$date";

?>

- A = Uppercase 12hr time syntax eg. PM
- a = Lowercase 12hr time syntax eg. pm
- D = Day eg. Fri
- d = Day eg. 03
- F = Full Text Month eg. January
- G = Hours in 24 hour format without leading zeros eg. 17
- g = Hours in 12 hour format without leading zeros eg. 7
- H = Hours in 24 hour format with leading zeros eg. 17
- h = Hours in 12 hour format with leading zeros eg. 07
- i = Minutes eg. 29
- M = Month eg. Jan
- m = Month eg. 01
- O = GMT time difference in hours eg. +0400
- S = Day of month suffix eg. st, nd, rd, or th.
- s = Seconds eg. 28
- T = Timezone setting eg. GMT, PST, EST, etc
- t = Total number of days in the month eg. 28, 31, etc.
- U = Seconds since the UNIX epoch eg. 1041604168
- W = Week number in year eg. 42 (42nd week in the year)
- w = numeric representation of the day eg. 1 = monday, 2 = tuesday, etc.
- Y = Year eg. 2003
- y = Year eg. 03
- z = Day of the year eg. 002

A Few Examples
To finish this tutorial there now follows a few examples of standard date/time strings and the values they output. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and good luck with PHP!;)

Date String Example Output
date("F j, Y, g:i a"); - March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
date("m.d.y"); - 03.10.01
date("j, n, Y") - 10, 3, 2001
date("D M j G:i:s T Y"); - Sat Mar 10 15:16:08 PST 2001
date("H:i:s"); - 17:16:17
date('\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.'); - It is the 10th day.