diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f49d2e09..5d0f7295 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -332,6 +332,16 @@ beego has many default variables, as follow is a list to show:
 - AppConfig    *Config
 
     Appconfig is a result that parse file from conf/app.conf, if this file not exist then the variable is nil. if the file exist, then return the Config as follow.
+	
+- PprofOn bool
+
+	default is false. turn on pprof, if set to true. you can visit like this:
+	
+		/debug/pprof
+		/debug/pprof/cmdline
+		/debug/pprof/profile
+		/debug/pprof/symbol	
+	this serves via its HTTP server runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool. For more information about pprof, see	http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/pprof/
 
 ## Config
 ============ 
diff --git a/template.go b/template.go
index 2932efd0..4dc643e6 100644
--- a/template.go
+++ b/template.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ func init() {
 	beegoTplFuncMap = make(template.FuncMap)
 	beegoTplFuncMap["markdown"] = MarkDown
 	beegoTplFuncMap["dateformat"] = DateFormat
+	beegoTplFuncMap["date"] = Date
 	beegoTplFuncMap["compare"] = Compare
 }
 
@@ -35,6 +36,45 @@ func DateFormat(t time.Time, layout string) (datestring string) {
 	return
 }
 
+// Date takes a PHP like date func to Go's time fomate
+func Date(t time.Time, format string) (datestring string) {
+	patterns := []string{
+		// year
+		"Y", "2006", // A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits	Examples: 1999 or 2003
+		"y", "06", //A two digit representation of a year	Examples: 99 or 03
+
+		// month
+		"m", "01", // Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros	01 through 12
+		"n", "1", // Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros	1 through 12
+		"M", "Jan", // A short textual representation of a month, three letters	Jan through Dec
+		"F", "January", // A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March	January through December
+
+		// day
+		"d", "02", // Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros	01 to 31
+		"j", "2", // Day of the month without leading zeros	1 to 31
+
+		// week
+		"D", "Mon", // A textual representation of a day, three letters	Mon through Sun
+		"l", "Monday", // A full textual representation of the day of the week	Sunday through Saturday
+
+		// time
+		"g", "3", // 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	1 through 12
+		"G", "15", // 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	0 through 23
+		"h", "03", // 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	01 through 12
+		"H", "15", // 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	00 through 23
+
+		"a", "pm", // Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	am or pm
+		"A", "PM", // Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	AM or PM
+
+		"i", "04", // Minutes with leading zeros	00 to 59
+		"s", "05", // Seconds, with leading zeros	00 through 59
+	}
+	replacer := strings.NewReplacer(patterns...)
+	format = replacer.Replace(format)
+	datestring = t.Format(format)
+	return
+}
+
 // Compare is a quick and dirty comparison function. It will convert whatever you give it to strings and see if the two values are equal.
 // Whitespace is trimmed. Used by the template parser as "eq"
 func Compare(a, b interface{}) (equal bool) {