Working with dates in PHP can get cumbersome. Especially when you need to calculate a date occurrence in the past or future. These examples should help get those dates, and output them in a human readable format.
PHP Date Formatting
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Y
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4 digit year (2018)
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y
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2 digit year (18)
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F
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Long month (January)
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M
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Short month (Jan)
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m
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Month two digits (01 to 12)
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n
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Month (1 to 12)
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D
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Short day name (Mon)
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l
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Long day name (Monday) (lowercase L)
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N
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numeric representation of the day of the week – 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday)
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w
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Numeric representation of the day of the week – 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
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d
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Day two digits (01 to 31)
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j
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Day (1 to 31)
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h
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12 Hour two digits (01 to 12)
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g
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12 Hour (1 to 12)
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H
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24 Hour two digits (00 to 23)
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G
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24 Hour (0 to 23)
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i
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Minutes two digits (00 to 59)
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s
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Seconds two digits (00 to 59)
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w
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Day of week (0 to 6)
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z
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Day of year (0 to 365)
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W
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Week of year (1 to 53)
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t
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Days in month (28 to 31)
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a
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am or pm
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A
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AM or PM
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B
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Swatch Internet Time (000 to 999)
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S
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Ordinal Suffix (st, nd, rd, th)
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T
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Timezone of machine (GMT)
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Z
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Timezone offset (seconds)
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O
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GMT offset (hours) (+0200)
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I
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Daylight saving (1 or 0)
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L
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Leap year (1 or 0)
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U
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Seconds since Epoch
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c
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ISO 8601 (PHP 5) (2008-07-31T18:30:13+01:00)
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r
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RFC 2822 (Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:30:13 +0100)
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Get next Week
// Get next week
echo date("l, M d Y", strtotime ("+1 week"));
// Result is: Tuesday, May 15 2018
Get next Monday
//Get next Monday
echo date("l, M d Y", strtotime("next monday"));
//Result is: Monday, May 14 2018
Get the first day of a given month
//Get the first Wednesday of December, 2015
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("first wednesday of 2018-05"));
//Result is: Wednesday, May 02, 2018</span>
Get next Friday
//Get next Friday
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("last friday"));
//Result is: Friday, May 04, 2018
Get the first day of next month
//Get the first day of next month
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("first day of next month"));
//Result is: Friday, Jun 01, 2018
Get the first Monday in January
//Get the first Monday in January
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("first monday of 2018-01"));
//Result is: Monday, Jan 01, 2018
First Monday of next month
//Get the first Monday of next month
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("first monday of next month"));
//Result is: Monday, Jun 04, 2018
Get the last day of this month
//Get the last day of this / current month
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("last day of this month"));
//Result is: Thursday, May 31, 2018
Get the second Friday of last month
//Get the second Friday of last month
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("second friday of last month"));
//Result is: Friday, Apr 13, 2018
Get the last Friday of this month
//Get the last Friday of this month
echo date("l, M d, Y", strtotime("last friday of this month"));
//Result is: Friday, May 25, 2018