NOW() function in PHP?

Question

Is there a PHP function that returns the date & time in the same format as the MySQL function `NOW()`? I know how to do it using `date()`, but I am asking if there is a function only for this. For example to return: 2009-12-01 00:00:00

Answer 1

strtotime('now'), returns unix-timestamp.

you still need date to convert to your output format.

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('now'));

> 2019-05-28 18:49:20