- In this video, I want to explore the difference…between functions and objects.…At the same time, we'll learn a little about…how PHP handles dates and time.…This is the documentation for the PHP date function…in the online manual.…As it explains at the top of the page,…it formats a local data or time.…And in the Description, we can see that the first argument…of the date function is a format string.…The second argument is optional…but the default is to call another function…which is called time.…
This returns a timestamp for the current date and time.…Timestamps measure the number of seconds…that it laps since midnight universal coordinated time…at the beginning of January the 1st, 1970.…And that's how computers work with dates and time.…They always work in seconds.…And if we scroll down,…there's a list of the format characters…that can be used in the first argument of the date function.…So for example, a lowercase L gives you…a full textual representation of the day of the week.…
Compare DateTime objects with comparison operators in PHP Description. The following code shows how to compare DateTime objects with comparison operators. PHP if condition with date. I'm trying to figure out how to get PHP to tell if ' dateA ' is newer than ' dateB '. The date format is a little different than the normal 2014-03-21.
In English, Sunday through Saturday.…