PHP Date - How to add a string to separate date and time

Question

I want to display date and time format something like this "May 23 at 12:30pm". I saw in PHP manual and found:

// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

After modification I manage to get

 echo date('M j \of h:i a');

it is giving me "May 23 of 12:30pm"

but when i replacing of with at it is giving me "May 23 a23 08:26 pm".

I don't what is going wrong.

Answer 1

you need to escape the a and t as both have special meaning when used as formatting options in date()

echo date('M j \a\t h:i a');

See it in action

Answer 2

Try

<?php
    echo date('M j \a\t h:i a');
?>

OR

<?php
    echo date('M j'). "at". date(' h:i a');
?>

Answer 3

You need to escape the t too:

echo date('M j \a\t h:i a');