12. Utilities and Useful Classes

Joomla! includes a number of useful utilities and classes that are used to perform specific tasks. In this chapter, we will discuss the use of the most commonly used utilities and classes.

Joomla! extensions that require date and time handling can use the JDate class to handle date and time parsing, formatting, and time zones. In this chapter, we discuss how to use JDate to handle all of these aspects of date and time values.