PHPDate: a jQuery date formatting plugin

In the grand scheme of things, outputting dates into nicely human readable formats in JavaScript is easy. But it's repetitive. Really, excrutiatingly repetitive.

As someone who codes a lot of PHP, I am a fan of it's date function which gives a short-hand way of formatting dates for output. Here is my port of that function to JavaScript in the form of a jQuery plugin.

If you've ever used PHP's date function, adopting my plugin equivalent should be straightforward. Simply call like so: $.PHPDate("l, jS F Y H:i:s T", myDate); where the first parameter is a string and the second is a valid date object. The string can be made up of the characters listed below which is hopefully faithful to the PHP original.

Click here to see a quick example of calling: $.PHPDate("l, jS F Y H:i:s T", new Date());