How do I generate a specific date such as the 13th of March

Question

I have been using the following code to generate a date.

$datejoined = strip_tags(date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime("+1 day")));

How would I generate a specific date for April 13th?

Answer 1

strtotime() can generate date date from almost any line of text. strtotime('April 13') is okay for April 13 in current year. Test it with the following line of code:

  print date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('April 13'));

But personally I would suggest you to use much faster function mktime() :

mktime(0, 0, 0, 4, 13); // 0:00:00, 4th month, 13 day, [current year].