Date helpers for websites

Installation

Add this to your composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "citripio/date": "^1.0"
    }
}

Then:

require_once "./vendor/autoload.php";

$date_utils = new Citripio\Date(
    array(
        "lang" => "es",
    )
);

Methods

is_today()

Receives a PHP Date date("Y-m-d H:i:s"). Returns true if it's today.

is_yesterday()

Receives a PHP Date date("Y-m-d H:i:s"). Returns true if it's yesterday.

month()

Receives an integer representing a month of the year, returns its name.

day()

Receives an integer representing a day of the week, returns its name.

get_date_components()

Useful for composing headings and other strings with dates in them.

Receives a PHP Date date("Y-m-d H:i:s"). Returns an array containing:

• date_dow: Day name. Same as day()
• date_day: Day number, like the 20 in "April 20th"
• date_moy: Month name. Dame as month()
• date_distance: (today|yesterday|past)
• ordinal: Date number with an ordinal attached to it, for english dates. Eg: "20th", "3rd", "1st"