php.js: idate() function

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idate() function

The idate() function is used to get formatted local time/date as integer.

Version:

1103.1210

Syntax:

idate(format, timestamp)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
format	B - Swatch Beat/Internet Time d - Day of the month h - Hour (12-hour format) H - Hour (24-hour format) i - Minutes I - returns 1 when DST is activated otherwise 0 L - returns 1 for leap year otherwise 0 m - Month number s - Seconds t - Days in current month U - Seconds since the Unix Epoch - January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC w - Day of the week (0 on Sunday) W - ISO-8601 numeric week of year, weeks starting on Monday y - Year Y - Year in 4 digits z - Day of the year Z - Timezone offset in seconds	Optional	String
timestamp	An integer indicates the unixtimestamp. If a timestamp is not supplied, it gives the current local time.	Optional	integer

Example of php.js idate() function.

In the following web document idate() function returns formatted local time/date as integer.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>php.js : idate() function example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/date/datetime.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green">php.js : idate() function example</h1>
<h3>Formatted local time/date as integer.</h3>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
document.write("idate('d')"+'<br />');
document.write(idate('d')+'<br />');
document.write("idate('m')"+'<br />');
document.write(idate('m')+'<br />');
document.write("idate('y')"+'<br />');
document.write(idate('Y')+'<br />');
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output of the example:

idate('d')
5
idate('m')
7
idate('y')
2011

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