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I scratched my own itch. Sometimes I need to write messages to a log file. It helps to debug, warns of odd behavior, etc. So I wrote a php class called loggar that can be used in a single line. 

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PHP Date formatting cheat sheet

I got tired of checking php.net for the date formatting characters I use the most, so I grabbed their formatting table and trimmed it down. Taped to the side of my monitor it makes a good cheatsheet.

Day

d -- 01 to 31 Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros

D -- Mon through Sun A textual representation of a day, three letters

j -- 1 to 31 Day of the month without leading zeros

l(lowercase 'L') -- Sunday throughSaturday A full textual representation of the day of the week

S -- st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters

Month

F -- January through December A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March

m -- 01 through 12 Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros

M -- Jan through Dec A short textual representation of a month, three letters

n -- 1 through 12 Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros

t -- 28 through 31 Number of days in the given month

Year

Y -- Examples: 1999 or 2003 A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits

y -- Examples: 99 or 03 A two digit representation of a year

Time

a -- am or pm Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

A -- AM or PM Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

g -- 1 through 12 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

G -- 0 through 23 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

h -- 01 through 12 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

H -- 00 through 23 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

i -- 00 to 59 Minutes with leading zeros

s -- 00 through 59 Seconds, with leading zeros