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

Question

Which PHP function can return the current date/time?

Answer 1

According to the article How to Get Current Datetime (NOW) with PHP, there are two common ways to get the current date. To get current datetime (now) with PHP, you can use the date class with any PHP version, or better the datetime class with PHP >= 5.2.

Various date format expressions are available here.

Example using date

This expression will return NOW in format Y-m-d H:i:s.

Example using datetime class

This expression will return NOW in format Y-m-d H:i:s.

format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
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