i want to use date with a professional way

hi,

i see a professional scripts allow you to define the way you want to display time of posts
and allow member to define there time zone

and so on

how can i do this
i want lesson to learn the best way to using date functions

 

Well, most of scripts store time in integer, the valued obtained rom function time() in php which provides the unix timestamp in form of seconds. Then passing the stored value to function date returns a formated date. e.g.

$postdate = time();  #stored

Code (markup):

#now retrieving and formating
$date = date("F d, Y",$postdate); #results something like September 9, 2008

Code (markup):

As far formatting as per timezone
The timezone values are stored such as +5, -5, +4, +3 (HOURS).
e.g. formatting as per timezone +5 hours

$hours = 5;
$postdate = $postdate + ($hours * 3600); #where 3600 is seconds of an hour
$date = date("F d, Y",$postdate);

Code (markup):

I hope you have now an idea how it works.

regards

 

You can see all the date function options here: http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php