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Understanding Date function Parameters in PHP

I am making a custom calendar in PHP Zend-framework2, from a web tutorial, but cannot understand what does the function parameters mean? Here is the code

$running_day = date('w',mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year));

$month and $year are passed to this function, but don't understand what other parameters mean. Any help would be appreciated,

Solution

  • mktime — Get Unix timestamp for a date. it's six parameters stand for hour minute second month day and year respectively.

    date — Format a local time/date. It's first parameter accept format designator and 'w' will return a numeric representation of the day of the week which starts from 0 (0 for Sunday). It's second optional parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a timestamp is not given.

    Please cheek PHP official documentation, you will get more detail.

    Documentation:

    miketime date