What is GZIP Compression

You need to enable GZIP compression on your website to reduce load time of your website. Sharp website development and aggressive search engine optimization (SEO) is vital for every website but adding heap of content takes it tool on your website’s viewership. Research shows that your website will leave your website if it made them more than 20 seconds. Modern website designs are incomplete without CSS, Java scripts, PHP and images but sometimes these things piles so much that they choke the bandwidth of the consumer and consumers leave your website disgruntled after your website loading lower than the speed of a snail.

Why Do I Need PHP Date And Time Refernce?

Need for a PHP date and time reference arose when I was working on a blog and I had to check for the date and time functions every now and then. Let me admit something here. Nobody is a perfect programmer. We usually need references and cheatsheets to get out word done quickly. PHP like every other maintained programming language has like thousands if not millions of function names and parameters.
I cannot remember all the functions and classes for a specific task. I simply needed an online reference for PHP date time functions so that I dont have to go snoop around like 30 pages to find one itsy bitsy function.

date() Function

date() month pretty much handy while you are dealing with date/time functionality in PHP. for example

Output:  05-07-2016

this function would print current date in simple day-month-year format as shown above.

Output:  10:37:58

and this function would print time in mundane hour:minutes:seconds format as given below

You can also add other details like day and am/pm as well.

Output:  Tuesday 05-07-2016 10:44 AM

If you wanted to check if a date exists or not, you can use checkdate(‘m’,’d’,’Y’) function
It works something like this

Output:  FALSE

It would print false as output because 20th doesnt exist. or does it?

date_create() Function

There’s a date_create() function to create an date object so date/time funcsionality.

Output:  object(DateTime)[1]
public 'date' => string '2016-07-02 09:06:20' (length=19)
public 'timezone_type' => int 3
public 'timezone' => string 'Europe/Paris' (length=12)

date_diff() Function

date_diff() is a function that gives out the interval between two given dates.

$date1 = date_create("2013-03-15");
$date2 = date_create("2013-12-12");
$diff = date_diff($date1,$date2);
var_dump($diff) ;
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Output:  object(DateInterval)[3]
public 'y' => int 0
public 'm' => int 8
public 'd' => int 27
public 'h' => int 0
public 'i' => int 0
public 's' => int 0
public 'weekday' => int 0
public 'weekday_behavior' => int 0
public 'first_last_day_of' => int 0
public 'invert' => int 0
public 'days' => int 272
public 'special_type' => int 0
public 'special_amount' => int 0
public 'have_weekday_relative' => int 0
public 'have_special_relative' => int 0

date_format() Function

date_format() is a function to format date as provided.

Output:  30-07-1999

time() Function

time() function gives you current epoch or unix time.

Output:  1467707548

gmdate() Function

You can format the output in human reabible using gmdate() function

Output:  Tuesday 10:09:13 05-07-2016

strtotime Function

function returns relative time,string unix timestamp format.

Output:  1260572400
1467738028
1468314028
1468598433
1467928800

Relative Time Function

Here’s one script I have found on github to find relative time.

Just copy above above function and then you can use it in your program like

And the output would be something like this

Output:  4 weeks ago

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ConvertIcon

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Brackets by Adobe

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Opera Mobile Emulator

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We are living in mobile age and every website is now coming with responsive website. So, if you are developing a mobile friendly responsive website, then you should have this utility on your system for a quick preview of your work

font dragr

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Choosing the right font for the website is quite hard and tedious task. Font dragr is an online tool to test the font design without having them imported by just simply dragging the font file to the webpage.

Nibbler

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