PHP - Display the current date in words?

Is there a wa开发者_高级运维y to use getdate (or similar) to output the current day in a format like this

twenty october twenty ten

I can't have the year as 'two thousand ten' due to space restrictions so it just needs to be 'twenty eleven' 'twenty twelve' etc

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Sure. Follow this tutorial then apply results to your date.

_{Note: you need to split year to two parts: 2010 = 20, 10}

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You can't do this with PHP's date function. You can only output the month as string. To do what you asked for you need to get a number to word function (plenty are available out there) and apply it on your day - numberToWord( date('j') ), first part of the year - numberToWord( substr(date('Y'), 0, 2) ) and second part of the year - numberToWord( substr(date('Y'), 2, 2) ). The month is date('F').