Chapter 10. Working with Strings, Dates, and Time
No matter how rich web content becomes, HTML lies behind it all, pushing string-based content out to web browsers. It is no accident, then, that PHP provides many functions with which you can format and manipulate strings. Similarly, dates and times are so much a part of everyday life that it becomes easy to use them without thinking. However, because the quirks of the Gregorian calendar can be difficult to work with, PHP provides powerful tools that make date manipulation an easy task.
Numerous PHP functions are available to you, and this chapter does not begin to cover all of them. However, this chapter does provide a foundation for using some of the basic string, date, and time functions, and ...
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