PHP: Print Date & Time in web page

Forgive me for posting, because this is probably really simple, but I can't get it to work!

I'm designing the site so that each user can have their own login and password, which i have done successfully, but now i want to print the current date and time next to their greeting on the front page. I haven't learnt PHP from the basics up (fool that I am), only the bits I have needed to know.

I've tried searching the manual but can't understand how to call the current date and time into a variable and then print the variable. Yes, I am a buffoon! Any help would be really appreciated ;-)

Thanks in advance.

Jon.
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http://paramedicscience.co.uk/

If you check out http://www.weberdev.com php section and then date/time area then I am sure there will be something
there that will assist.

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Originally posted by dolmanboy

If you check out http://www.weberdev.com php section and then date/time area then I am sure there will be something
there that will assist.

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Here is the direct URL to the Time & Date section of Weberdev: http://www.weberdev.com/search.php3?...&secondary=PHP

Here is phpBuilder's code snippet section: http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/

hi

is this what you need?

This produces Year-Month-Day
<?php
$Today=date("Y-m-d");
?>

This produces Day of week, Name of Month, Day of month, hour, minute and ending with AM or PM
<?php
echo("<br><center>");
print(date("l F d h:i A"));
echo("</center>");
?>

If the goal is to read the current date into the data base then check the
tutorial in this site by Kevin Yank. it uses the CURRENT_DATE in one of the input commands in Part 4 and the subsection "inserting data into a data base."

peace ed

a slight mod on my post.

replace the $today=date(Y-M-D); with print(date(Y-M-D));

this will cause the date to print, where the provided example sets the string value and does not print out.

thanks ed

Everyone, thanks for your help and quick replies! FYI, i've used Ed's print(date("l F d h:i A")); command to produce the output I required, I was trying to use gmdate() to do the same sort of thing but I kept getting errors.

Once again thanks, nice to know there are people out there willing to help!

Jon.
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Jon Yates
w: http://paramedicscience.co.uk/

Always pleased to be helpful.

The BIGGEST (and folks will tell you i am not big on using caps), problem I have is around the date and time..

peace ed