Date function in PHP

In PHP there is a function available for get date and time that is date(format, timestamp) function.
Let’s see the parameter format & timestamp in details –

For more details about date parameter you can see here.

Let’s see the example –

<?php
echo date('d-m-Y');

Output :(It’ll print today’s date)

10-06-2020

Now let’s see how to get yesterday date in PHP –

<?php
echo date('d-m-Y', strtotime(' -1 day'));

Output:

09-06-2020

Similarly, we can get 1 week, 1 month, 1 year or n numbers of days back or ago date by simple use of one line function. For getting future date just delete -(minus) from above function.It’ll give you future date.

We can also set default time zone.

<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");
echo date_default_timezone_get();
?>

Output:

Asia/Kolkata

Click here for get list of all available time zone.

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