Google Sitemap Date Format

php sitemap date-format
user1329212 picture user1329212 · Aug 2, 2012 · Viewed 31.5k times · Source

I need date format for sitemaps in php.

How can i do that ?

Is this output right ?

<lastmod>2012-08-02EEST18:01:18+03:00</lastmod>

Answer

Dunhamzzz picture Dunhamzzz · Aug 2, 2012

If you have the timestamp you can format the date correctly like this:

<lastmod><?php echo date('c', $timestamp); ?></lastmod>

Time stamp could be time() (for current time) or some other method of fetching a unix tiemstamp like strtotime()

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