PHP: mktime() parse error invalid numeric literal

I need to set variable, let’s call it $times to specific amount of 8AM. I tried using mktime(08,00) but it returns

Parse error: Invalid numeric literal

Since I’m new to php, I still don’t know which function is best used for thing such as this, weather it is time() date() or so.

My question is: how do I set $times to be 8AM of current day?

I’ve checked a lot of similar questions, but none of them have an answer. Not even the one that this is marked duplicate of.

Answer

Just remove the leading zeros.

mktime(8, 0);

It’s because PHP is interpreting 08 as an octal number, and 8 is out of range in octal (0-7).