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Request #21955 date() feature request
Submitted: 2003-01-29 18:04 UTC Modified: 2003-02-26 15:10 UTC
From: mark dot young at vdhinc dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-29 18:04 UTC] mark dot young at vdhinc dot com 
I'd like to see the date() function have some predefined common date formats:

date("1") = "2002-1-31"
date("2") = "January 31, 2002"
date("3") = etc...

I constantly keep looking up the little letters to make various super common date formats.  ("Is the month an F or an M or an m?")

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 [2003-02-26 00:12 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Yes, and I'd like that PHP made coffee too.
Seriously, it's not that hard to put the formats you
use into a constant or variable..
 [2003-02-26 15:10 UTC] mark dot young at vdhinc dot com 
Of course it's easy.  The point is, the codes are difficult to remember, so I always have to look them up for every new use of date.  I was suggesting that 5 or 10 of the most common date formats be predefined.  like date("1") would be defined as date("F j, Y"), as a simple example.  This way, PHP developers would only need to remember the single code that fits the date format they use most often, instead of remembering that "F" is a month name.

It was a simple suggestion I thought you guys could very easily implement, and would benefit the community.  There was no need for sarcasm.
 
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