Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition

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Quiz

1:	How would you acquire a Unix timestamp representing the current date and time?
2:	Which function accepts a timestamp and returns an associative array representing the given date?
3:	Which function would you use to format date information?
4:	How would you acquire a timestamp for an arbitrary date?
5:	Which function could you use to check the validity of a date?

Answers

A1:	The time() function returns the current date in timestamp format.
A2:	The getdate() function returns an associative array whose elements contain aspects of the given date.
A3:	The date() function is used to format a date.
A4:	Given arguments representing the hour, minute, second, month, day of month, and year, the mktime() function returns a Unix timestamp. ...