echo $current_year = date("Y").'<br><br>';
echo $string_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime($current_year));
I want to change date(Year) to string but this code show output as 1970.
I don't understand why it is 1970?
How to make current year that is 2016. please help.
The entire date should be passed within strtotime(), and not just the year. Or you could simply pass the timestamp as the second parameter.
Try this:
echo $string_year = strftime("%Y", time());
OR
echo $string_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime("now"));
Your issue is that the strftime function takes a timestamp as the second param but you are passing a string.
=> string strftime ( string $format [, int $timestamp = time() ] )
Thus when you pass date("Y").'<br>' technically this is not a timestamp anymore and this defaults to the 1st year that our php works from being 1970.
When doing
echo $current_year = date("Y");
echo $string_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime($current_year));
I get 2016 but honestly I don't understand why you are asking for the year then changing it to a year again since both $current_year and $string_year are strings.
echo $current_year = date("Y");
echo $string_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime($current_year));
echo gettype( $current_year); //Output: string
echo gettype( $string_year); //Output: string