Creating Timestamps with mktime()

You can already get information about the current time, but you cannot yet work with arbitrary dates. mktime() returns a timestamp you can then use with date() or getdate(). mktime() accepts up to six integer arguments in the following order:

hour
minute
second
month
day of month
year

Listing 16.3 uses mktime() to get a timestamp that we then use with the date() function.

Listing 16.3. Creating a Timestamp with mktime()
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 5: <head>
 6: <title>Listing 16.3 Creating a Timestamp with mktime()</title> 7: </head> 8: <body> 9: <div> 10: <?php 11: // make a timestamp for 1/5/04 at 2.30 am 12: $ts ...

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