How to create a string in PHP that is equivalent to yyyyMMddHHmmssffff

Question

I am trying to integrate with some VB code that generates a string using

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmssffff")

The closest I can get to this in PHP has been

date('YmdHis')

But this lacks the milliseconds,

I have tried playing with microtime e.g.

date('YmdHis',time()).substr(str_replace(".","",microtime(true)),10,17)

But sometimes this results in a shorter string

Milliseconds are shown using `v` as per the [documentation](https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php). See the note just above the milliseconds entry though...use the proper DateTime object to get a better result — ADyson, Jul 31 '23 at 18:39

Stefanov.sm · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-31T18:52:34.837

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date function always returns zero for microseconds. Use DateTime -> format and chop the last two digits off so that 4 fractional digits are left.

substr((new DateTime()) -> format('YmdHisu'), 0, 18);

edited Jul 31 '23 at 18:52

answered Jul 31 '23 at 18:38

Stefanov.sm

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