PHP Date Today with time

PHP can generate today date and time in different formats for use in different applications. PHP date function returns date with a given format along with time. Here is a simple date command in PHP to display today date. 
date("date format",[timestamp])

The output of the above command is: 02/02/15 

Use of PHP timestamp in the date function is optional. To display the date in above format we have used the date format like this
date("m/d/y") 

This will format the display to month / day / year format. We can change the display to any other format we want with use of different characters to format the string. You will get a list of such characters used for formating the date is listed at the end of this page.

Let us display the todays date with the present time using the date format characters in a better way. 
February 2, 2015, 3:19 am

Refresh your browser window to see how the time is changing. Here is the code used to display the above date and time. 
date("F j, Y, g:i a")

Displaying Present Month

echo date('M');

The output is here.

Feb

Present Day of the Week

echo date('l');

The output is here.

Monday

Present Day of the Month

echo date('d');

The output is here.

02

You can try more such outputs by using different date formats