How to add <br> tag in PHP Date format

Question

Is there a way to add a line break
in PHP date formats? I am using a plugin for WordPress which allows for the use of regular PHP date formats and have tried numerous options but not gotten something to work yet.

What I have tried:

• l </br> j M
• l \n j M

Thanks!

Answer 1

echo date("l<\b\\r>j M");

or

echo date('l<\b\r>j M');

Outputs:

Wednesday<br>2 Jan

Answer 2

You need to escape the HTML tag to avoid it being parsed as date segments:

<?php
    echo date('l \<\/\b\r\> j M');
?>

Alternatively, if you don’t like the above (like me), then you can use the strftime() function:

<?php
    echo strftime('%A<br />%e %b');
?>

The second parameters of both the date() and strftime() functions takes a timestamp.