NOW() function in PHP

Question

Is there a PHP function that returns the date and time in the same format as the MySQL function NOW()?

I know how to do it using date(), b

Answer 1

My answer is superfluous, but if you are OCD, visually oriented and you just have to see that now keyword in your code, use:

date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime( 'now' ) );