php date of today -1day code example

Example 1: php code to display current date and time in different formats

echo date('Y.m.d H:i:s');

Example 2: how to set date in php

// 1. create a date instance
$date = new DateTime;

// 2. set the date using the setDate(year, month, date) method on the
//    $date instance
$date->setDate(1999,02,19);