Today, Yesterday, First Date Of Month and Year

Load the date Helper First

Open ...application/config/autoload.php file and edit this file

$autoload['helper'] = array('url','form','html','date');

/*** Here I have edit the date ****/

Or

You Can Load this manually:

This helper is loaded using the following code :

$this -> load -> helper ('date');


After Loading write the code in a view and load this view within a controller and run it


 $time = time();
$todayformat = "%Y-%m-%d";
$todaydate = mdate($todayformat, $time);
echo  $todaydate; ?>

                                         
$yesterday = time()-(60*60*24);
$yesterdaydate = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0,date("m",$yesterday),date("d",$yesterday),date("Y",$yesterday)));
echo $yesterdaydate; ?>

                                         
$firstday = "%Y-%m-1";
$firstdaydate = mdate($firstday, $time);
echo  $firstdaydate; ?>

                                         
$first = "%Y-1-1";
$first = mdate($first, $time);
echo  $first; ?>

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