PHP Date Time: Getting Current

PHP Date Time Tips - Part 1: If you want to display current date and/or time, you can try code like this:

<?
$now = getdate();
?>

It create array that contents information about current date time. To look what content of the array, you can try like this:

<?
$now = getdate();

print_r($now);
?>

So, you can see:

Array ( [seconds] => 20 
        [minutes] => 56 
        [hours] => 15 
        [mday] => 20 
        [wday] => 4 
        [mon] => 3 
        [year] => 2008 
        [yday] => 79 
        [weekday] => Thursday 
        [month] => March 
        [0] => 1206053780 )

Thus, you can use like this:

<?
$now = getdate();

echo "current date is ". 
      $now['mday'] . " ".
	  $now['month']. " ".
	  $now['year'];
echo "<br />";
echo "current time is ".
      $now['hours']. ":".
	  $now['minutes']. ":".
	  $now['seconds'];
	  
?>