How to get the year number with PHP?

Question

2009 this year, 2010 next year.

Answer 1

You can use the date function to extract a part of a date:

$year = date("Y"); // get the year part of the current date
$nextYear = $year + 1;

Run the snippet here.

Answer 2

Use getdate() function

Answer 3

Look at the functions date() and strtotime():

echo date('Y');
echo date('Y', strtotime('+1 year'));

Answer 4

...and strftime('%Y') does it too