Hi everyone!
Yesterday we began talking about writing out the date using PHP.
Today we will get to time. Before we learn how to write out the time using PHP, I will quickly show you how you can write out a copyright line at the bottom of your site, which will always be the most recent year. It’s actually quite simple!
All you have to do is insert the following line:
© 2010-<?php echo date(“Y”)?>The output of this will be © 2010-2015
Easy as pie!
Now let’s move on to the time.
Just like we had some common characters for the date, bellow are some characters for time:
h – 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros (01 to 12)
i – Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)
s – Seconds with leading zeros (00 to 59)
a – Lowercase am or pm
You can also add in different characters to specify your format. For example, “/” “:” etc…
Take a look at the example below:
echo “The time is ” . date(“h:i:sa”);
?>
This will read – The time is 04:14:17pm
*Remember, the PHP date() function is getting the current date or time from the server!
Good luck practicing how to write the time using PHP!
See you next time!
