How to display the date in an appropriate format using PHP?

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How to display the date in an appropriate format using PHP?

Free programming example written by Anton Zamov

You should use the special date function in PHP.

Take a look at the example
<?php
   echo date("D M d");
  ?>

  will display: Mon Feb 03

  where

  Y = Year eg. 2003
  y = Year eg. 03
  M = Month eg. Jan
  m = Month eg. 01
  D = Day eg. Fri
  d = Day eg. 03
  z = Day of the year eg. 002
  H = Hours in 24 hour format eg. 07
  h = Hours in 12 hour format eg. 7
  i = Minutes eg. 29
  s = Seconds eg. 28
  U = Seconds since epoch eg. 1041604168

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