One of the benefits of working with PHP is the fact that it integrates so well with a lot of the software out there. There are modules that you can build in for just about anything you can think of. Some of the coolest features, though, are built into the normal install - like the date/time handling, and DevArticles wants to help...

In one of their latest, Working with Dates and Times in PHP (creative title, huh?), they start from the beginning, and show you some of the PHP date functionality, and how to use it to make dates "human readable". PHP loves working with Unix timestamps for this kind of thing, and transforming that timestamp into just about anything else is simple with the provided functions.

This article is a really, really simple overview of the date/time functionality, and would probably only last a newbie about 5 minutes, but at least it's a place to start. PHP is *much* more powerful than this, and I wish they'd given a little bit of a hint on that...