PHP

getdate()

The getdate() function returns an associative array containing date and time values for the local time, and if a timestamp is given as an argument, the date and time for that timestamp. The key or index of the associative array is a string representing the time and date value.

Key	Value
seconds	Seconds, range 0 to 59
minutes	Minutes, range 0 to 59
hours	Hours, range 0 to 23
mday	Day of the month, range 1 to 31
wday	Day of the week, range 0 (Sunday), through 6 (Saturday)
mon	A month, range 1 through 12
year	Year, numeric
yday	Day of the year, numeric
weekday	Day of the week, full-text format
month	A month, full-text format

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="EN" lang="EN">
<head>
<title>getdate()</title>
<meta Name="Author" Content="Hann So">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
		process_form();
	}
	else {
		display_form();// display form for the first time
	}

function display_form() {
	echo <<<HTML
	<h2>Get the date</h2>
	<form action = "$_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME]" method="post">
	Month:
	<input type="text" name="mm" size="50" value="07" />
	<br />
	Day:
	<input type="text" name="dd" size="50" value="04" />
	<br />
	Year:
	<input type="text" name="yy" size="50" value="1972" />
	<br />
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
	</form>
HTML;
}

function process_form() {

	$mm = "$_POST[mm]";
	$dd = "$_POST[dd]";
	$yy = "$_POST[yy]";

	$date = mktime(0, 0, 0, $mm, $dd, $yy);
	$day = getdate($date);
	foreach ($day as $key =>$value)
	{
		echo "$key => $value<br />";
	}

	//today
	$now = getdate();
	echo "<p><b>Today</b></p>";
	foreach ($now as $key =>$value)
	{
		echo "$key => $value<br />";
	}

	echo "<p><a href=\"$_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME]\">Try again?</a></p>\n";
}

?>
</p>
</body>
</html>

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