How do I get the current date and time in PHP?

Question

Which PHP function can return the current date/time?

Answer 1

Another simple way is to take the timestamp of the current date and time. Use mktime() function:

$now = mktime(); // Return timestamp of the current time

Then you can convert this to another date format:

//// Prints something like: Thursday 26th of January 2017 01:12:36 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A',$now);

More date formats are here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php