String date current date/time?

Question

I am using $date = date(\"D M d, Y G:i\");.

When I echo $date, it shows the correct date/time. Now I need this as an string.

I have tr

Answer 1

If you like working with objects you can do this:

$date = new \DateTime('now');
echo $date->format('D M d, Y G:i');