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String mathematical date and time functions


Date/Time Functions

•    checkdate — Validate a Gregorian date
•    date_add — Alias of DateTime::add
•    date_create_from_format — Alias of DateTime::createFromFormat
•    date_create — Alias of DateTime::__construct
•    date_date_set — Alias of DateTime::setDate
•    date_default_timezone_get — Gets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
•    date_default_timezone_set — Sets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
•    date_diff — Alias of DateTime::diff
•    date_format — Alias of DateTime::format
•    date_get_last_errors — Alias of DateTime::getLastErrors
•    date_interval_create_from_date_string — Alias of DateInterval::createFromDateString
•    date_interval_format — Alias of DateInterval::format
•    date_isodate_set — Alias of DateTime::setISODate
•    date_modify — Alias of DateTime::modify
•    date_offset_get — Alias of DateTime::getOffset
•    date_parse_from_format — Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format
•    date_parse — Returns associative array with detailed info about given date
•    date_sub — Alias of DateTime::sub
•    date_sun_info — Returns an array with information about sunset/sunrise and twilight begin/end
•    date_sunrise — Returns time of sunrise for a given day and location
•    date_sunset — Returns time of sunset for a given day and location
•    date_time_set — Alias of DateTime::setTime
•    date_timestamp_get — Alias of DateTime::getTimestamp
•    date_timestamp_set — Alias of DateTime::setTimestamp
•    date_timezone_get — Alias of DateTime::getTimezone
•    date_timezone_set — Alias of DateTime::setTimezone
•    date — Format a local time/date
•    getdate — Get date/time information
•    gettimeofday — Get current time
•    gmdate — Format a GMT/UTC date/time
•    gmmktime — Get Unix timestamp for a GMT date
•    gmstrftime — Format a GMT/UTC time/date according to locale settings
•    idate — Format a local time/date as integer
•    localtime — Get the local time
•    microtime — Return current Unix timestamp with microseconds
•    mktime — Get Unix timestamp for a date
•    strftime — Format a local time/date according to locale settings
•    strptime — Parse a time/date generated with strftime
•    strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
•    time — Return current Unix timestamp
•    timezone_abbreviations_list — Alias of DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations
•    timezone_identifiers_list — Alias of DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers
•    timezone_location_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getLocation
•    timezone_name_from_abbr — Returns the timezone name from abbreviation
•    timezone_name_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getName
•    timezone_offset_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getOffset
•    timezone_open — Alias of DateTimeZone::__construct
•    timezone_transitions_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getTransitions
•    timezone_version_get — Gets the version of the timezonedb

Strings Functions

•    addcslashes — Quote string with slashes in a C style
•    addslashes — Quote string with slashes
•    bin2hex — Convert binary data into hexadecimal representation
•    chop — Alias of rtrim
•    chr — Return a specific character
•    chunk_split — Split a string into smaller chunks
•    convert_cyr_string — Convert from one Cyrillic character set to another
•    convert_uudecode — Decode a uuencoded string
•    convert_uuencode — Uuencode a string
•    count_chars — Return information about characters used in a string
•    crc32 — Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string
•    crypt — One-way string hashing
•    echo — Output one or more strings
•    explode — Split a string by string
•    fprintf — Write a formatted string to a stream
•    get_html_translation_table — Returns the translation table used by htmlspecialchars and htmlentities
•    hebrev — Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text
•    hebrevc — Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text with newline conversion
•    hex2bin — Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string
•    html_entity_decode — Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters
•    htmlentities — Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities
•    htmlspecialchars_decode — Convert special HTML entities back to characters
•    htmlspecialchars — Convert special characters to HTML entities
•    implode — Join array elements with a string
•    join — Alias of implode
•    lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase
•    levenshtein — Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings
•    localeconv — Get numeric formatting information
•    ltrim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string
•    md5_file — Calculates the md5 hash of a given file
•    md5 — Calculate the md5 hash of a string
•    metaphone — Calculate the metaphone key of a string
•    money_format — Formats a number as a currency string
•    nl_langinfo — Query language and locale information
•    nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string
•    number_format — Format a number with grouped thousands
•    ord — Return ASCII value of character
•    parse_str — Parses the string into variables
•    print — Output a string
•    printf — Output a formatted string
•    quoted_printable_decode — Convert a quoted-printable string to an 8 bit string
•    quoted_printable_encode — Convert a 8 bit string to a quoted-printable string
•    quotemeta — Quote meta characters
•    rtrim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string
•    setlocale — Set locale information
•    sha1_file — Calculate the sha1 hash of a file
•    sha1 — Calculate the sha1 hash of a string
•    similar_text — Calculate the similarity between two strings
•    soundex — Calculate the soundex key of a string
•    sprintf — Return a formatted string
•    sscanf — Parses input from a string according to a format
•    str_getcsv — Parse a CSV string into an array
•    str_ireplace — Case-insensitive version of str_replace.
•    str_pad — Pad a string to a certain length with another string
•    str_repeat — Repeat a string
•    str_replace — Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string
•    str_rot13 — Perform the rot13 transform on a string
•    str_shuffle — Randomly shuffles a string
•    str_split — Convert a string to an array
•    str_word_count — Return information about words used in a string
•    strcasecmp — Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
•    strchr — Alias of strstr
•    strcmp — Binary safe string comparison
•    strcoll — Locale based string comparison
•    strcspn — Find length of initial segment not matching mask
•    strip_tags — Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string
•    stripcslashes — Un-quote string quoted with addcslashes
•    stripos — Find the position of the first occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
•    stripslashes — Un-quotes a quoted string
•    stristr — Case-insensitive strstr
•    strlen — Get string length
•    strnatcasecmp — Case insensitive string comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
•    strnatcmp — String comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
•    strncasecmp — Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters
•    strncmp — Binary safe string comparison of the first n characters
•    strpbrk — Search a string for any of a set of characters
•    strpos — Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
•    strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
•    strrev — Reverse a string
•    strripos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
•    strrpos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string
•    strspn — Finds the length of the initial segment of a string consisting entirely of characters contained within a given mask.
•    strstr — Find the first occurrence of a string
•    strtok — Tokenize string
•    strtolower — Make a string lowercase
•    strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
•    strtr — Translate characters or replace substrings
•    substr_compare — Binary safe comparison of two strings from an offset, up to length characters
•    substr_count — Count the number of substring occurrences
•    substr_replace — Replace text within a portion of a string
•    substr — Return part of a string
•    trim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
•    ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase
•    ucwords — Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
•    vfprintf — Write a formatted string to a stream
•    vprintf — Output a formatted string
•    vsprintf — Return a formatted string
•    wordwrap — Wraps a string to a given number of characters

Math Functions

•    abs — Absolute value
•    acos — Arc cosine
•    acosh — Inverse hyperbolic cosine
•    asin — Arc sine
•    asinh — Inverse hyperbolic sine
•    atan2 — Arc tangent of two variables
•    atan — Arc tangent
•    atanh — Inverse hyperbolic tangent
•    base_convert — Convert a number between arbitrary bases
•    bindec — Binary to decimal
•    ceil — Round fractions up
•    cos — Cosine
•    cosh — Hyperbolic cosine
•    decbin — Decimal to binary
•    dechex — Decimal to hexadecimal
•    decoct — Decimal to octal
•    deg2rad — Converts the number in degrees to the radian equivalent
•    exp — Calculates the exponent of e
•    expm1 — Returns exp(number) - 1, computed in a way that is accurate even when the value of number is close to zero
•    floor — Round fractions down
•    fmod — Returns the floating point remainder (modulo) of the division of the arguments
•    getrandmax — Show largest possible random value
•    hexdec — Hexadecimal to decimal
•    hypot — Calculate the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle
•    is_finite — Finds whether a value is a legal finite number
•    is_infinite — Finds whether a value is infinite
•    is_nan — Finds whether a value is not a number
•    lcg_value — Combined linear congruential generator
•    log10 — Base-10 logarithm
•    log1p — Returns log(1 + number), computed in a way that is accurate even when the value of number is close to zero
•    log — Natural logarithm
•    max — Find highest value
•    min — Find lowest value
•    mt_getrandmax — Show largest possible random value
•    mt_rand — Generate a better random value
•    mt_srand — Seed the better random number generator
•    octdec — Octal to decimal
•    pi — Get value of pi
•    pow — Exponential expression
•    rad2deg — Converts the radian number to the equivalent number in degrees
•    rand — Generate a random integer
•    round — Rounds a float
•    sin — Sine
•    sinh — Hyperbolic sine
•    sqrt — Square root
•    srand — Seed the random number generator
•    tan — Tangent
•    tanh — Hyperbolic tangent

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