Date variable in PHP

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Hi everyone,
I’d like to create a variable : “$myDate” of date type with a value attached: “2001-01-31” which is 31th January 2001.
Problem is, I dont know how to do it :frowning:
Can anyone, please, show me how to assign a date to a date variable in PHP?
Thanks

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Have a look at the date() function - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php and see how you get on…

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As far as I know PHP does not have a date variable, maybe you mean a string?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

   <?php 
	   	echo '<h3> Seconds is since Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) </h3>';
	   	
	   	$time	= time();
	   	$day  = date('Y-m-d \w\a\s l', $time);
		echo '<br>$time = ' .$time;
		echo '<br>$day  =' 	.$day;
		echo '<br><br>';

	   	$date = '31st January 2001';
   		$time 	= strtotime( $date );
	   	$day 	  = date('Y-m-d \w\a\s l', $time);
 	   	echo '<br>date  = ' .$date;
		echo '<br>$time = ' .$time;
		echo '<br>$day  =' 	.$day;
		echo '<br><br>';
	   	 
	   	$date = 'January 31st 2001';
   		$time 	= strtotime( $date );
	   	$day 	  = date('Y-m-d \w\a\s l', $time);
 	   	echo '<br>date  = ' .$date;
		echo '<br>$time = ' .$time;
		echo '<br>$day  =' 	.$day;
		echo '<br><br>';

	   ?>

Output:

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Thank you gandalf.
I’ll try to assimilate it.

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Thanks a lot John !

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