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Revision as of 10:53, 3 September 2015
This article contains examples of PHP.
Timestamp
PHP provides the time function, which returns the time (from the server clock).
The time can be formatted and used in a variety of ways.
Code snippet:
<p><?php echo time(); ?></p>
Observe how the above code snippet mixes HTML with PHP code islands.
Use your browser's View Source or Inspect Element to confirm that the web page's source code contains only HTML, no PHP.
See [time] for more information.
Date
PHP provides the date() function, which returns date and time.
The date and time can be formatted and used in a variety of ways.
Code snippet:
<p><?php echo date("Y/m/d"); ?></p>
<p><?php echo date("l"); ?></p>
Observe how the above code snippet mixes HTML with PHP code islands.
Use your browser's View Source or Inspect Element to confirm that the web page's source code contains only HTML, no PHP.
See PHP date for more information.
