Returns an associative array containing the date
information of the timestamp, or the current
local time if no timestamp is given, as the
following associative array elements:
Table 1. Key elements of the returned associative array
Key
Syntax
Example returned values
"seconds"
Numeric representation of seconds
0 to 59
"minutes"
Numeric representation of minutes
0 to 59
"hours"
Numeric representation of hours
0 to 23
"mday"
Numeric representation of the day of the month
1 to 31
"wday"
Numeric representation of the day of the week
0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
"mon"
Numeric representation of a month
1 through 12
"year"
A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits
Examples: 1999 or 2003
"yday"
Numeric representation of the day of the year
0 through 365
"weekday"
A full textual representation of the day of the week
Sunday through Saturday
"month"
A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
January through December
0
Seconds since the Unix Epoch, similar to the values returned by
time() and used by date().
System Dependent, typically -2147483648 through
2147483647.
Example 1.
getdate() example
<?php $today = getdate(); print_r($today); ?>
The above example will output
something similar to:
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