Display time or date

[Anon]

Dear all,

I would like to make a form for client to input the sentence . The sentence, namely $text, may involve the variables such date or time, for example,

Now "Christmas" is $data("h:i:s"), This submit to the mysql database and then show in the other webpage.

Please give me solution how to convert to the output form such as follow

$text="Now \"Christmas\" is".$date("h:i:s")

Thanks
Simon