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dateFormatiert ein(e) angegebene(s) Zeit/Datum

Beschreibung:

string date ( string $Format [, int $Timestamp ] )

Gibt einen formatierten String anhand eines vorzugebenden Musters zurück. Dabei wird entweder der angegebene Timestamp oder die gegenwärtige lokale Zeit berücksichtigt, wenn kein Timestamp angegegeben wird. Mit anderen Worten ausgedrückt: der Parameter Timestamp ist optional und falls dieser nicht angegeben wird, wird der Wert der Funktion time() angenommen.

Hinweis: Der gültige Bereich eines Timestamp liegt typischerweise zwischen Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT und Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (Das entspricht den minimalen und maximalen Werten für einen vorzeichenbehafteten 32-Bit Integer). Unter Windows-Betriebssytemen ist dieser Bereich auf 01-01-1970 bis 19-01-2038 beschränkt.

Hinweis: Um einen Timestamp aus aus einem Datums-String zu erzeugen, können Sie die Funktion strtotime() benutzen. Zusätzlich bieten einige Datenbanken Funktionen, um Ihre Datumsfromate in Timestamps umzuwandeln (wie zum Beispiel MySQL's » UNIX_TIMESTAMP Funktion.

Die folgenden Zeichen werden im Parameter Format erkannt
Format Zeichen Beschreibung Beispiel für Rückgabewerte
a Kleingeschrieben: Ante meridiem und Post meridiem am oder pm
A Großgeschrieben: Ante meridiem und Post meridiem AM oder PM
B Swatch-Internet-Zeit 000 bis 999
c ISO 8601 Datum (hinzugefügt in PHP 5) 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
d Tag des Monats, 2-stellig mit führender Null 01 bis 31
D Tag der Woche gekürzt auf drei Buchstaben Mon bis Sun
F Monat als ganzes Wort, wie January oder March January bis December
g 12-Stunden-Format, ohne führende Nullen 1 bis 12
G 24-Stunden-Format, ohne führende Nullen 0 bis 23
h 12-Stunden-Format, mit führenden Nullen 01 bis 12
H 24-Stunden-Format, mit führenden Nullen 00 bis 23
i Minuten mit führenden Nullen 00 bis 59
I (großes i) Fällt ein Datum in die Sommerzeit 1 bei Sommerzeit, ansonsten 0.
j Tag des Monats ohne führende Nullen 1 bis 31
l (kleines 'L') Ausgeschriebener Tag der Woche Sunday bis Saturday
L Schaltjahr oder nicht 1 für ein Schaltjahr, ansonsten 0.
m Monat als Zahl, mit führenden Nullen 01 bis 12
M Monatsname mit drei Buchstaben Jan bis Dec
n Monatszahl, ohne führende Nullen 1 bis 12
O Zeitunterschied zur Greenwich time (GMT) in Stunden Beispiel: +0200
r » RFC 2822 formatiertes Datum Beispiel: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
s Sekunden, mit führenden Nullen 00 bis 59
S Anhang der englischen Aufzählung für einen Monatstag, zwei Zeichen st, nd, rd oder th. Zur Verwendung mit j empfohlen.
t Anzahl der Tage des angegebenen Monats 28 bis 31
T Zeitzoneneinstellung des Rechners Beispiele: EST, MDT ...
U Sekunden seit Beginn der UNIX-Epoche (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) Siehe auch time()
w Numerischer Tag einer Woche 0 (für Sonntag) bis 6 (für Samstag)
W ISO-8601 Wochennummer des Jahres, die Woche beginnt am Montag (hinzugefügt in PHP 4.1.0) Beispiel: 42 (die 42 Woche im Jahr)
Y Vierstellige Jahreszahl Beispiel: 1999 oder 2003
y Jahreszahl, zweistellig Beispiele: 99 oder 03
z Der Tag eines Jahres 0 bis 365
Z Offset der Zeitzone in Sekunden. Der Offset für Zeitzone West nach UTC ist immer negativ und für Zeitzone Ost nach UTC immer positiv. -43200 bis 43200

Nicht erkannte Zeichen werden unverändert ausgegeben. Das Z Format gibt beim Gebrauch von gmdate() immer 0 zurück.

Beispiel #1 date() Beispiel

<?php
// Gibt etwas ähnliches zu Wednesday aus
echo date("l");

// Gibt etwas ähnliches aus wie: Wednesday 15th of January 2003 05:51:38 AM
echo date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");

// Ausgabe: July 1, 2000 ist ein Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 ist ein " date("l"mktime(000712000));
?>

Möchten Sie verhindern, dass ein erkanntes Zeichen im Formatstring ersetzt wird, sollten Sie dieses Zeichen mit einem vorangestellten Backslash escapen. Ist das Zeichen mit dem Backslash bereits eine spezielle Zeichenfolge, müssen Sie diesen Backslash ebenso escapen.

Beispiel #2 Escaping von Zeichen in date()

// gibt etwas ähnliches aus wie 'Wednesday the 15th'
echo date("l \\t\h\e jS");

Es ist möglich, date() und mktime() gleichzeitig zu verwenden, um Datumsangaben in der Zukunft/Vergangenheit zu bestimmen.

Beispiel #3 date() und mktime() Beispiele

<?php
$morgen        
mktime(000date("m")  , date("d")+1date("Y"));
$letztermonat  mktime(000date("m")-1date("d"),   date("Y"));
$naechstesjahr mktime(000date("m"),   date("d"),   date("Y")+1);
?>

Hinweis: Dieses Vorgehen kann zu verlässlicheren Ergebnissen führen, als simples addieren oder subtrahieren der Anzahl von Sekunden in Tagen oder Monaten zu einem Timestamp, da Sommer- und Winterzeit berücksichtigt werden.

Es folgen einige Beispiele zur date() Formatierung. Beachten Sie, dass Sie alle anderen Zeichen escapen sollten, da alle Zeichen, die im Augenblick eine spezielle Bedeutung haben, unerwünschte Resultate liefern. Bei allen weiteren Zeichen kann es durchaus möglich sein, dass diesen in zukünftigen PHP-Versionen eine Bedeutung zukommt. Beim escapen sollten Sie darauf achten einfache Anführungszeichen zu benutzen, damit Zeichenfolgen wie zum Beispiel \n zu keinem Zeilenumbruch führen.

Beispiel #4 date() Formatierungen

<?php
// Angenommen heute ist March 10th, 2001, 5:16:18 pm

$today date("F j, Y, g:i a");                 // March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
$today date("m.d.y");                         // 03.10.01
$today date("j, n, Y");                       // 10, 3, 2001
$today date("Ymd");                           // 20010310
$today date('h-i-s, j-m-y, it is w Day z ');  // 05-16-17, 10-03-01, 1631 1618 6 Fripm01
$today date('\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.');   // It is the 10th day.
$today date("D M j G:i:s T Y");               // Sat Mar 10 15:16:08 MST 2001
$today date('H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h');     // 17:03:17 m is month
$today date("H:i:s");                         // 17:16:17
?>

Um Datumsangaben in anderen Sprach-/Zeitzonen-Formaten auszugeben, sollten Sie die Funktionen setlocale() und strftime() benutzen.

Siehe auch getlastmod(), gmdate(), mktime(), strftime() und time().



getdate> <date_timezone_set
Last updated: Fri, 22 Aug 2008
 
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Cortexd
27-Aug-2008 08:47
a date function supporting the milliseconds format character

<?php
function udate($format, $utimestamp = null)
{
    if (
is_null($utimestamp))
       
$utimestamp = microtime(true);

   
$timestamp = floor($utimestamp);
   
$milliseconds = round(($utimestamp - $timestamp) * 1000000);

    return
date(preg_replace('`(?<!\\\\)u`', $milliseconds, $format), $timestamp);
}

echo
udate('H:i:s.u'); // 19:40:56.78128
echo udate('H:i:s.u', 654532123.04546); // 16:28:43.45460
?>
pdubbb1 at gmail dot com
26-Aug-2008 02:32
here is the simpliest way to get the start and end date of the week;

<?php
$sdate
=date('c',strtotime(date('Y')."W".date('W')."0"));

$edate=date('c',strtotime(date('Y')."W".date('W')."7"));
?>

the format is for the string in strtotime is;
 
     2008W200

this stands for year - 2008, constant never changes - W, week number of the year - 20, day of the week - 0 for sunday, 1 for monday, etc....

so 2008W200 stands for the sunday of the 20th week of 2008. 

This will only work in php 5 or better
rowe_a at glan-hafren dot ac dot uk
22-Aug-2008 11:16
simple code to get the date of the monday and sunday of the current week.

inspired by: wulf dot kaiser at mpimf-heidelberg dot mpg dot de

<?
$day
= date('d');
$wkday = date('l');
$month = date('m');
$year = date('Y');

switch(
$wkday) {
   
    case
'Monday': $numDaysToSun = 6; $numDaysToMon = 0; break;
    case
'Tuesday': $numDaysToSun = 5; $numDaysToMon = 1; break;
    case
'Wednesday': $numDaysToSun = 4; $numDaysToMon = 2; break;
    case
'Thursday': $numDaysToSun = 3; $numDaysToMon = 3; break;
    case
'Friday': $numDaysToSun = 2; $numDaysToMon = 4; break;
    case
'Saturday': $numDaysToSun = 1; $numDaysToMon = 5; break;
    case
'Sunday': $numDaysToSun = 0; $numDaysToMon = 6; break;   
}

echo
$wkday;
echo
" - ";
echo
$day;
echo
" - ";
echo
$month;
echo
" - ";
echo
$year;
echo
" - ";
echo
$numDaysToSun;
echo
" - ";
echo
$numDaysToMon;
echo
" - ";
echo
$monday = date('d-m-Y', mktime('0','0','0', $month, $day-$numDaysToMon, $year));
echo
" - ";
echo
$sunday = date('d-m-Y', mktime('0','0','0', $month, $day+$numDaysToSun, $year));
?>

headings:
Day(string) - day - month - year - days to sun - days from mon - monday date - sunday date
output:
Friday - 22 - 08 - 2008 - 2 - 4 - 18-08-2008 - 24-08-2008
abazaba.ru
15-Aug-2008 12:53
All novices must be very carefull when working with timestamps as second values.
From first glance it looks like date("Y-m-d H:i:s",TIMESTAMP) will return correct date, based on "how much seconds gone from 1970".
But here is the feature, it'll be corrected time, according to LOCAL timezone.

So if you take a 25200 as timestamp (10 hours),
then on one server you'll get
1970-01-01 08:00:00
and on other server you'll get
1970-01-01 09:00:00
and so on.
Though you could expect 1970-01-01 10:00:00 in all cases, because if 25200 seconds gone from 1970-01-01 00:00:00 it obviously have to be 1970-01-01 10:00:00

I spend today 3 hours to correct scripts which were created with such error by previous programmer, so please, guys, don't make me work like this and remember about conversation to LOCAL time.
phprocks at aol dot com
06-Aug-2008 08:25
Try this for finding the difference in days between 2 dates/datetimes... take note though, date_parse requires PHP version 5.1.3 or higher.

<?php
/**
 * Finds the difference in days between two calendar dates.
 *
 * @param Date $startDate
 * @param Date $endDate
 * @return Int
 */
function dateDiff($startDate, $endDate)
{
   
// Parse dates for conversion
   
$startArry = date_parse($startDate);
   
$endArry = date_parse($endDate);

   
// Convert dates to Julian Days
   
$start_date = gregoriantojd($startArry["month"], $startArry["day"], $startArry["year"]);
   
$end_date = gregoriantojd($endArry["month"], $endArry["day"], $endArry["year"]);

   
// Return difference
   
return round(($end_date - $start_date), 0);
}
?>
laszlo72 at gmail dot com
28-Jul-2008 12:16
if you want to get the number of month
between two dates
you can use this function:

<?php
/*

$start = "YYYYMM" ;
$stop = "YYYYMM" ;

*/

function getNumMonth($start,$stop) {

       
$aSta = substr($start,0,4) ;
       
$aSto = substr($stop,0,4) ;
       
       
$mSta = substr($start,4,2) ;
       
$mSto = substr($stop,4,2) ;
       
        if(
$aSta == $aSto) {             
            return
$mSto-$mSta+1 ;
        } else {
            if((
$aSto-$aSta) == 1) {    
                return
12-$mSta+$mSto+1 ;
            } else {                    
                return (
12-$mSta+$mSto+1)+($aSto-$aSta-1)*12;
            }   
        }
}
?>
JonathanCross.com
25-Jul-2008 10:22
<?php
// A demonstration of the new DateTime class for those
// trying to use dates before 1970 or after 2038.
?>
<h2>PHP 2038 date bug demo (php version <?= phpversion() ?>)</h1>
<div style='float:left;margin-right:3em;'>
<h3>OLD Buggy date()</h3>
<?
  $format
='F j, Y';
  for (
$i = 1900; $i < 2050; $i++) {
   
$datep = "$i-01-01";
   
?>
    Trying: <?=$datep?> = <?=date($format, strtotime($datep))?><br>
    <?
 
}
?></div>
<div style='float:left;'>
  <h3>NEW DateTime Class (v 5.2+)</h3><?
 
for ( $i = 1900; $i < 2050; $i++) {
   
$datep = "$i-01-01";
   
$date = new DateTime($datep);
   
?>
    Trying: <?=$datep?> = <?=$date->format($format)?><br>
    <?
 
}
?></div>
gertrude dot mendoza at gmail dot com
18-Jul-2008 09:41
<?php
/*
@params $firstdate, $lastdate
@return array() of array(monday,sunday)
@description returns all the mondays and sundays of the given date range
*/
function get_week_intervals($fdate,$ldate)
{
    list(
$year,$month,$day) = explode('-',$fdate);
   
$daynum = date('w',
                  
mktime(date('H'),
                         
date('i'),
                         
date('s'),
                         
$month,
                         
$day,
                         
$year)
                  );
   
$daynum = $daynum==0? 7 : $daynum;
   
$week=array();
   
//get the dayname of the first day
    //if month = current month get the current date as the last day
   
if($month==date('m'))
    {
       
$lastday = date('d');
    }
    else
    {
       
$lastday = date('t', strtotime($fdate));
    }
    if((
date('l',strtotime($fdate))) == 'Sunday')
    {
       
$monday = $fdate;
       
$sunday = $fdate;
    }
    else
    {
       
$monday = $fdate;
       
$sunday = date('Y-m-d',(mktime(date('H'),
                      
date('i'),date('s'),$month,
                      
$day,$year))-($daynum-7)*86400);

    }
   
$week[] = array('monday'=>$monday,'sunday'=>$sunday);

   
$day = date('d',strtotime($sunday." +1 day"));

    while(
$sunday < $ldate)
    {
       
$monday = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($sunday." +1 day"));

        list(
$year,$month,$day) = explode('-',$monday);
       
$daynum = date('w',
                     
mktime(date('H'),
                            
date('i'),
                            
date('s'),
                            
$month,
                            
$day,
                            
$year)
                       );
       
$daynum = $daynum==0? 7 : $daynum;

       
$sunday = date('Y-m-d',(mktime(date('H'),date('i'),
                      
date('s'),$month,$day,$year))-($daynum-7)*86400);
        if(
$sunday > $ldate)
        {
           
$sunday = $ldate;
        }

       
$week[] = array('monday'=>$monday,'sunday'=>$sunday);
    }

    return
$week;
}
?>
Anonymous
17-Jul-2008 06:30
to get the date of the monday from a week these function is useful:

<?php
/* Get First Calendar Week of Year x*/
 
function firstkw($jahr)
    {
      
$erster = mktime(0,0,0,1,1,$jahr);
      
$wtag = date('w',$erster);
    if (
$wtag <= 4) {
          
/**
            * Donnerstag oder kleiner: auf den Montag zurückrechnen.
            */
          
$montag = mktime(0,0,0,1,1-($wtag-1),$jahr);
       } else {
          
/**
            * auf den Montag nach vorne rechnen.
            */                                                                        
          
$montag = mktime(0,0,0,1,1+(7-$wtag+1),$jahr);
       }
       return
$montag;
    }

/*GET timestamp of monday of month x*/
   
function mondaykw($kwtime)
    {
          
$firstmonday =$this->firstkw(date("Y", $kwtime));
          
$mon_monat = date('m',$firstmonday);
          
$mon_jahr = date('Y',$firstmonday);
          
$mon_tage = date('d',$firstmonday);
          
$tage = (date("W", $kwtime)-1)*7;
          
$mondaykw = mktime(0,0,0,$mon_monat,$mon_tage+$tage,$mon_jahr);
           return
$mondaykw;
    }

echo
mondaykw(time()); //1215986400
?>
fgabrieli at gmail dot com
14-Jul-2008 09:56
here is a function to split a number of seconds in hours, minutes and seconds

<?php

   
function split_seconds($seconds)
    {
       
// get the minutes

       
$minutes = floor($seconds / 60) ;

       
$seconds_left = $seconds % 60 ;

       
// get the hours

       
$hours = floor($minutes / 60) ;

       
$minutes_left = $minutes % 60 ;

       
// (test) show the result 

       
echo "$hours hours $minutes_left minutes and $seconds_left seconds" ;
    }

   
split_seconds(68648) ;

?>
   

best regards
fernando gabrieli
shem_lexluger at yahoo.com
14-Jul-2008 02:43
Assuming a week starts on Monday. To calculate the week number of the current date starting from a specified date, use this function:

<?php
function weekcounter($start_date)
{
  
$start_date = strtotime($start_date);
  
$today = strtotime(date('d-m-Y'));

  
$week = 1;
   while(
$start_date < $today) {
   
$start_date = strtotime('next Monday', $start_date);
   
$week++;
   }

   return
$week;
}

// Example:
//now = 14-07-2008
echo weekcounter('01-07-2008'); //prints 3
echo weekcounter('01-06-2008'); //prints 8 instead of 7; because 1st jun is a Sunday so it is week 1 and 2nd june is week 2. Feel free to tweak.
?>
Rob A.
10-Jul-2008 06:38
Quick function for returning the names of the next 7 days of the week starting with today.

Returns an array that can be formatted to your liking.

<?php
/**
* Returns array of next 7 days starting with today
*
*/

function next_7_days() {
       
// create array of day names. You can change these to whatever you want
   
$days = array(
                           
'Monday',
                           
'Tuesday',
                           
'Wednesday',
                           
'Thursday',
                           
'Friday',
                           
'Saturday',
                           
'Sunday');
   
$today = date('N');
    for (
$i=1;$i<$today;$i++) {

               
// take the first element off the array
       
$shift = array_shift($days);

               
// ... and add it to the end of the array
       
array_push($days,$shift);
    }
       
// returns the sorted array
   
return $days;
}
?>

It basically takes an array starting with Monday and shifts each day to the end of the array until the first element in the array is today.
con_tobe at yahoo dot com
10-Jul-2008 05:46
Doing $w-- for months ending on Sat won't hurt (i.e. if you're counting weeks as is the case below), but halocastle's code is perfectly fine as is and quite fast.  He/she uses $w as a key for the $weeks array.  "Halo" does this BEFORE $w++, so $w-- is superfluous as the loop has already ended.  For May, 2008, I get 5 weeks as expected...

Array
(
    [1] => Array
        (
            [4] => 1
            [5] => 2
            [6] => 3
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => 4
            [1] => 5

------------OMITTED-----------------

            [4] => 22
            [5] => 23
            [6] => 24
        )

    [5] => Array
        (
            [0] => 25
            [1] => 26
            [2] => 27
            [3] => 28
            [4] => 29
            [5] => 30
            [6] => 31
        )

)

I guess the one pit-fall of the code is if you overlap months, say the following year, then $m-- makes perfect since...I think (haven't gotten that far...yet).

I modified "Halo's" code to include months, too (this is from a snippet that produces a three month calendar, hence the outer $months loop, omitted here).

<?php
$m
= date('m');
$Y = date('Y');

// for() {months loop omitted
$var_date = mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, 1, $Y);
$month_name = date('F', $var_date);
$months[$month_name]['DAYS'] = date('t', $var_date);
$months[$month_name]['FIRST_DAY'] = date('w', $var_date);
//}
foreach($months as $month => $key) {
 
$weeks = array();
  for(
$i = 1, $j = $key['FIRST_DAY'], $w = 1;$i <= $key['DAYS'];$i++) {
   
$weeks[$w][$j] = $i;
   
$j++;
    if(
$j == 7) {
     
$j = 0;
     
$w++;
    }
  }
 
$months[$month]['WEEKS'] = $weeks;
}
?>

Enjoy!
dmagick at gmail dot com
03-Jul-2008 04:44
Slight amendment to halocastle at yahoo dot com 's code as it doesn't take into account when a month finishes on a Saturday (eg May 2008).

<?php
$start_date
= mktime(0, 0, 0,$start_month, 1, $start_year);

$days_in_month = date('t', $start_date);
$month_first_day = date('w', $start_date);

$j = $month_first_day;
$num_weeks = 1;

for(
$i = 1; $i <= $days_in_month; $i++) {
   
$j++;
    if(
$j == 7) {
       
$j = 0;
       
$num_weeks++;
    }
}

// if the last day of the month happens to be a Saturday,
// take one off the number of weeks
// because it was being added inside the for loop.
if ($j == 0) {
   
$num_weeks--;
}
?>
halocastle at yahoo dot com
01-Jul-2008 06:20
Weeks and days for any month/year combo:

<?php
$m
= 2; // February
$Y = 2008;

// constants used here for legibility, use $vars for dynamicon...
define('MONTH_DAYS',date('t', strtotime(date($m . '/01/' . $Y))));
// w:0->6 = Sun->Sat
define('MONTH_FIRST_DAY',date('w', strtotime(date($m . '/01/' . $Y))));

for(
$i = 1, $j = MONTH_FIRST_DAY, $w = 1;$i <= MONTH_DAYS;$i++) {
 
$week[$w][$j] = $i;
 
$j++;
  if(
$j == 7) {
   
$j = 0;
   
$w++;
  }
}
?>

print_r($week):
-----------------------
Array
(
    [1] => Array
        (
            [5] => 1
            [6] => 2
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => 3
            [1] => 4
            [2] => 5
            [3] => 6
            [4] => 7
            [5] => 8
            [6] => 9
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => 10
            [1] => 11
            [2] => 12
            [3] => 13
            [4] => 14
            [5] => 15
            [6] => 16
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [0] => 17
            [1] => 18
            [2] => 19
            [3] => 20
            [4] => 21
            [5] => 22
            [6] => 23
        )

    [5] => Array
        (
            [0] => 24
            [1] => 25
            [2] => 26
            [3] => 27
            [4] => 28
            [5] => 29
        )

)
Kavi Siegel
30-Jun-2008 04:18
I wrote the following function to show a series of drop down boxes to select the date. When provided with a timestamp, that date is selected by default, when none is provided, the current date is selected.

<?php
function chooseDate($timestamp = ""){
    if(
$timestamp == ""){
       
$timestamp = time();
    }
   
$months = array(null, 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec');
    unset(
$months[0]);
   
print_r($months);
   
$out = '<select name="month">';
    foreach(
$months as $key => $month){
        if(
$month == date('M', $timestamp)){
           
$out .= '<option value="'.$key.'" selected="selected">'.$month.'</option>';
        }else{
           
$out .= '<option value="'.$key.'">'.$month.'</option>';
        }
    }
   
$out .= '</select><select name="days">';
    for(
$i = 1; $i <= 32; $i++){
        if(
$i == date('j', $timestamp)){
           
$out .= '<option value="'.$i.'" selected="selected">'.$i.'</option>';
        }else{
           
$out .= '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
        }
    }
   
$out .= "</select><select name='year'>";
    for(
$i = date('Y'); $i >= 1970; $i--){
        if(
$i == date('Y', $timestamp)){
           
$out .= '<option value="'.$i.'" selected="selected">'.$i.'</option>';
        }else{
           
$out .= '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
        }
    }
   
$out .= "</select>";
    return
$out;
}
?>

Usage is simple:

<?php
echo chooseDate(); // Will select current date
echo chooseDate(1149566400); // Will select June 6th, 2006
?>
aplarsen
26-Jun-2008 10:12
@anonymous (12-Jun-2008 08:45):
date("t") returns the last day of the month, not the last working day of the month.

A cleaner example would be as follows:
<?php
function lastworkingday($date)
{   
   for(
$lastday=mktime(0,0,0,date("m",$date),
      
date("t",$date),date("Y",$date));
    
date("w",$lastday)==0 || date("w",$lastday)==6;
    
$lastday-=60*60*24);
   return
date("j",$lastday);
}
?>
kontakt at arthur minus schiwon dot de
18-Jun-2008 12:29
to get the week of the month simply use:
ceil( date("j") / 7 );
diego at diego dot eng dot br
10-Jun-2008 01:27
I made a small code to get the last working day of the month:

<?php

$times
= strtotime(date("Y")."-".date("m")."-".date("t"));
for (
$lastworkingday=0;$lastworkingday==0;$times-=86400)
   if (
date("w",$times)!=0 && date("w",$times)!=6) $lastworkingday = date("j",$times);
print
$lastworkingday;

?>
phil dot taylor at enilsson dot com
26-May-2008 07:37
Found this helpful when converting unix dates for use with the ical file format.

<?php
// Converts a unix timestamp to iCal format (UTC) - if no timezone is
// specified then it presumes the uStamp is already in UTC format.
// tzone must be in decimal such as 1hr 45mins would be 1.75, behind
// times should be represented as negative decimals 10hours behind
// would be -10
       
   
function unixToiCal($uStamp = 0, $tzone = 0.0) {
   
       
$uStampUTC = $uStamp + ($tzone * 3600);       
       
$stamp  = date("Ymd\THis\Z", $uStampUTC);
       
        return
$stamp;       

    }
?>
chubby at chicks dot com
23-May-2008 03:54
<?php
/**
     * Checks wether a date is between an interval
     *
     * Usage:
     *     
     * // check if today is older than 2008/12/31
     * var_dump(currentDayIsInInterval('2008/12/31'));
     * // check if today is younger than 2008/12/31
     * var_dump(currentDayIsInInterval(null,'2008/12/31'));
     * // check if today is between 2008/12/01 and 2008/12/31
     * var_dump(currentDayIsInInterval('2008/12/01','2008/12/31')); 
     *
     * Will trigger errors if date is in wrong format, notices if $begin > $end    
     *         
     * @param string $begin Date string as YYYY/mm/dd
     * @param string $end Date string as YYYY/mm/dd
     * @return bool 
     */
function currentDayIsInInterval($begin = '',$end = '')
{
       
$preg_exp = '"[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]"';
       
$preg_error = 'Wrong parameter passed to function '.__FUNCTION__.' : Invalide date
format. Please use YYYY/mm/dd.'
;
       
$interval_error = 'First parameter in '.__FUNCTION__.' should be smaller than
second.'
;
        if(empty(
$begin))
        {
               
$begin = 0;
        }
        else
        {
                if(
preg_match($preg_exp,$begin))
                {
                       
$begin = (int)str_replace('/','',$begin);
                }
                else
                {
                       
trigger_error($preg_error,E_USER_ERROR);
                }
        }
        if(empty(
$end))
        {
               
$end = 99999999;
        }
        else
        {
                if(
preg_match($preg_exp,$end))
                {
                       
$end = (int)str_replace('/','',$end);
                }
                else
                {
                       
trigger_error($preg_error,E_USER_ERROR);
                }
        }
        if(
$end < $begin)
        {
               
trigger_error($interval_error,E_USER_WARNING);
        }
       
$time = time();
       
$now = (int)(date('Y',$time).date('m',$time).date('j',$time));
        if(
$now > $end or $now < $begin)
        {
                return
false;
        }
        return
true;
}
?>
wilson dot p dot pereira at itelefonica dot com dot br
22-May-2008 05:37
The function below extracts any date time value basead in the string format.
Returns an associative array with day,month,year,hour,min and seg separated.

<?php
function ExtractDateTimeByFormat($strDateTime, $strFormat="dmYHis")
{
 
//extract the format
 
$i = 0;
 
$aFieldOrder = array();
 
$nFields = 0;
       
$strExtraction = "";
        while(isset(
$strFormat[$i]))
        {
           
$strField = $strFormat[$i];
            switch (
strtolower(