Help in finding the current day of the year in PHP

[Karsenman]

I am new(means the beginner) to this advance level of programming world. Now a days, i am learning the programing language like C++, C sharp, .Net, Java, and PHP. I have a query in the PHP, i want know is there any standard function which can give me the current day of the year.
Example: Jan 14=14 , Feb 2= 33, April 1= 91
Please help me in getting this code.

[Modifier]

PHP(Hypertext Prepocessor) is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Most of the people gets confused in getting the output you told. And yes there is a function in PHP to get output you told, and the function is date. Date function is very useful in PHP, it has many sub function in it.
Example:
// if you want to get day of year for 06 august 2010
// result should be 219
echo date("z", mktime(0,0,0,6,8,2010))+1;
Hope this will work for you and would able to achieve your aim.

[MindSpace]

According to your question, i think you want the function that will find the day in year for any particular date. If this is really the meaning of your question, then it can be achieve by using the date() function of the PHP and also with the 'z' modifier. For example:
<?php
// get day of year for 1 Feb 2010
// result will be 31
echo date("z", mktime(0,0,0,1,2,2010))+1;
?>
This code should work for you.

[opaper]

I am also learning the PHP language and i am enjoying with it. This really simple and easy language to learn. The output you want to achieve can be done with the help of date function. The date() function can be used in a good way, in some cases, and the most common place you would probably be to display the current date. For your purpose use date function with "z - Day of the year (0-365)" option.

[Reegan]

My studies of the PHP language says that there possible standard function to achieve your goal. The PHP date() function will be used to achieve your goal, this function formats a timestamp to a more readable date and time. There are are two paratmeters of this function i.e format(required) and timestamp(optional). You have to use "z" character which will format the date as you wanted (i.e the day in year for any particular date).
Syntax: date("z",...)
Hope your problem will be fix.

[Zecho]

I also had same problem few days ago, and the output you wanted was given as an mini project to me from my professor. By keeping in mind that you would be knowing PHP basics and the output you want can be achieved through date() function only. The code would be somewhat like this:
<?php
// get day of year for 14 Feb 2010
// result will be 45
echo date("z", mktime(0,0,0,14,2,2010))+1;
?>
This code given to me by my professor, it worked for me, hope it will work for you also.