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Add a date to your web page with PHP
Part II - An Introduction to Programming

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Now that you have determined your web host has PHP installed, let's add a date to your web page. The code for this is nice and simple, as follows:

<?
// Prints something like: 05th 2012f February 2012
echo date ("dS of F Y");
?>

You may have noticed the use of the //. This little piece of code remarks out lines of PHP. When PHP comes to a line beginning with //, it skips over it.

Now suppose for a moment that you don't think "11th of November 2003" sounds cool enough. You absolutely must have your web page read:

Today's Date: 2012.02.05

Done. Just use code like this:

Today's Date: <? echo date ("Y.m.d"); ?>

You may be wondering how I knew I could change the format of the date by changing "dS of F Y" to "Y.m.d" in the code. Well, good news. No need to memorize what those little letters translate to in English. It is all right here for you, on the home of PHP itself: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

There are even codes for adding the time to your web site. Easy, right? Next up, daily updates using PHP.

by Tad Coffin
MediaTitan.com

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