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PHP Date Time Tips - Part 14: Do you want to find which quarter of the year from a particular date? You can use date() function with the "m" modifier. Like this:

<?
$tm = mktime(0,0,0,8,8,2008);
echo ceil(date("m", $tm)/3);
?>

Series this article: PHP Date Time: Getting Current PHP Date Time: Checking Date Validity PHP Date Time: Formating Timestamp PHP Date Time: Converting Strings to Timestamps PHP Date Time: Using English-language time descriptors PHP Date Time: Checking Leap Years PHP Date Time: Finding The Number of Days in a Month PHP Date Time: Finding the Day in Year Number for a Date PHP Date Time: Finding The Number of Weeks in Year Number for a Date PHP Date Time: Finding the Day Name for a Date PHP Date Time: Finding The Total Number of Days in Year PHP Date Time: Finding The Total Number of Weeks in Year PHP Date Time: Converting Local Time to GMT PHP Date Time: Converting Between Different Time Zones PHP Date Time: Finding the Year Quarter for a Date PHP Date Time: Converting Minutes to Hours PHP Date Time: Comparing Dates Tag: date, year, quarter Category: PHP Basic Post : March 21st 2008 Read: 3,208 blog comments powered by Disqus