php-timecop – A PHP extension providing “time travel” capabilities

Now this looks handy, especially when you’re writing/testing code that’s dependent on the system’s time:

php-timecop is a PHP extension providing “time travel” and “time freezing” capabilities

• Freeze time to a specific point.
• Travel back to a specific point in time, but allow time to continue moving forward from there.
• Scale time by a given scaling factor that will cause time to move at an accelerated pace.
• Override time-related PHP stock functions and methods, which supports freezing or traveling time.

var_dump(date("Y-m-d")); // todays date
timecop_freeze(0);
var_dump(gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s")); // string(19) "1970-01-01 00:00:00"
var_dump(strtotime("+100000 sec")); // int(100000)

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