Format date in php

Question

PHP date provides formatting for date as follows

a for am,pm 

or

A for AM,PM 

whereas I need as follows:

a for a.m., p.m. //including the abbreviation periods.
A for A.M. , P.M.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

My two cents:

$date = date('Y-m-d h:i:s a');
$s = array(' am', ' AM', ' pm', ' PM');
$r = array(' a.m.', ' A.M.', ' p.m.', ' P.M.');
$date = str_replace($s, $r, $date);

(you could make a function)