in your select statement that you pull the date out with. wrap that column
with
SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(<columnname>) FROM table;
this will return the unix timestamp now with this format use the date()
function and format the date how ever you would like.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosser, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "'nautilis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] MySQL date formats
> nautilis,
>
> Leave the date in the database in MySQL format (YYYY/MM/DD) and when you
> need to display the date on your page, just do this:
>
> <?php
>
> explode("/", $datearray);
> $date = $datearray[2].'/'.$datearray[1].'/'.$datearray[0];
>
> ?>
>
> That just splits up the three numbers, and rearranges them. Easy :)
>
> Chris
> }:)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nautilis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:11 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PHP-DB] MySQL date formats
> >
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I have a little problem with my MySQL database in the way it stores
dates.
> > The only format i can have is YYYY/MM/DD, and when i request this date
> > from
> > my php page, this date is insertes in this format. As my website is
going
> > to
> > be for spanish users, the correct format would be DD/MM/YYYY, but i have
> > no
> > idea about changing this, either on the database or when i process it
with
> > php.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for reading my post. I hope anyone can point me into
the
> > right direction.
> >
> > nautilis
> >
> >
> >
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