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I am trying to list all months of the current year[2012] by using the following code:
for [$m=1; $m
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Definition and Usage
The date[] function formats a local date and time, and returns the formatted date string.
Syntax
Parameter Values
ParameterDescription format
Required. Specifies the format of the outputted date string. The following characters can be used: - d - The day of the month [from 01 to 31]
- D - A textual representation of a day [three letters]
- j - The day of the month without leading zeros [1 to 31]
- l [lowercase 'L'] - A full textual representation of a day
- N - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day [1 for Monday, 7 for Sunday]
- S - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month
[2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j]
- w - A numeric representation of the day [0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday]
- z - The day of the year [from 0 through 365]
- W - The ISO-8601 week number of year [weeks starting on Monday]
- F - A full textual representation of a month [January through December]
- m - A numeric representation of a month [from 01 to 12]
- M - A short textual representation of a month [three letters]
- n - A numeric
representation of a month, without leading zeros [1 to 12]
- t - The number of days in the given month
- L - Whether it's a leap year [1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise]
- o - The ISO-8601 year number
- Y - A four digit representation of a year
- y - A two digit representation of a year
- a - Lowercase am or pm
- A - Uppercase AM or PM
- B - Swatch Internet time [000 to 999]
- g - 12-hour format of an hour [1 to 12]
- G - 24-hour
format of an hour [0 to 23]
- h - 12-hour format of an hour [01 to 12]
- H - 24-hour format of an hour [00 to 23]
- i - Minutes with leading zeros [00 to 59]
- s - Seconds, with leading zeros [00 to 59]
- u - Microseconds [added in PHP 5.2.2]
- e - The timezone identifier [Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores]
- I [capital i] - Whether the date is in daylights savings time [1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise]
- O - Difference to Greenwich time
[GMT] in hours [Example: +0100]
- P - Difference to Greenwich time [GMT] in hours:minutes [added in PHP 5.1.3]
- T - Timezone abbreviations [Examples: EST, MDT]
- Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is negative [-43200 to 50400]
- c - The ISO-8601 date [e.g. 2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00]
- r - The RFC 2822 formatted date [e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200]
- U - The seconds since the Unix Epoch [January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT]
and the following predefined constants can also be used [available since PHP 5.1.0]:
- DATE_ATOM - Atom [example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00]
- DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies [example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC]
- DATE_ISO8601 - ISO-8601 [example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+0000]
- DATE_RFC822 - RFC 822 [example: Fri, 12 Apr 13 15:52:01 +0000]
- DATE_RFC850 - RFC 850 [example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC]
- DATE_RFC1036 - RFC 1036 [example: Fri, 12 Apr
13 15:52:01 +0000]
- DATE_RFC1123 - RFC 1123 [example: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:52:01 +0000]
- DATE_RFC2822 - RFC 2822 [Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:52:01 +0000]
- DATE_RFC3339 - Same as DATE_ATOM [since PHP 5.1.3]
- DATE_RSS - RSS [Fri, 12 Aug 2013 15:52:01 +0000]
- DATE_W3C - World Wide Web Consortium [example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00]
timestamp
Optional. Specifies an integer Unix timestamp. Default is the current local time [time[]]
Technical Details
Return Value:Returns a formatted date string on success. FALSE on failure + an E_WARNING
PHP Version:4+
Changelog:PHP 5.1.0: Added E_STRICT and E_NOTICE time zone errors. Valid range of timestamp is now from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. Before version 5.1.0 timestamp was limited from 01-01-1970 to 19-01-2038 on some systems [e.g. Windows].
PHP 5.1.1: Added constants of standard date/time formats that can be used to specify the format parameter
❮ PHP Date/Time Reference
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