Hour 16. Working with Dates and Times

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

• How to acquire the current date and time

• How to get information about a date

• How to format date information

• How to test dates for validity

• How to set dates

• How to build a simple calendar script

• How to build a class library to generate date pull-downs in HTML forms

Dates are so much a part of everyday life that it becomes easy to work with them without thinking. The quirks of your calendar can be difficult to work with in programs, though. Fortunately, PHP provides powerful tools for date arithmetic that make manipulating dates easy.