How to get a current year in PHP

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the current year in PHP.

Getting the current year

To get the current year in PHP, we can use the built-in date() function by passing the "Y" format character as an argument to it.

The date("Y") function returns the current year in four-digit(2021) string format according to the user’s local time.

Here is an example:

$year = date("Y");
echo $year;

Output:

2021

We can also get the current year in a two-digit format by passing the small "y" as an argument to the date() function.

$year = date("y");
echo $year;

21