[PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

I've got a date stored in a MySQL database in a DATE field, so it is stored as 2001-05-21. How do I convert that into a more friendly date like 21 May 2001 or even 21st May 2001 for display on a web page? I've tried print date(jS F Y, $dbtable[date]); but I always get 1st January 1970 because

Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

Thanks Papi, That works fine. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mralston.co.uk / Pavel Jartsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Matthew Ralston wrote: I've got a date stored in a MySQL database in a DATE field, so it is stored as 2001-05

[PHP] include(../file.inc);

How do you include or require a file that is above the current script in the directory hierarchy? For example how would I include or require a file whose path is ../file.inc relative to the current script? I tried all of: include(../file.inc); require(../file.inc); include(/file.inc);

[PHP] Get the string between custom delimiters

Is there a nice easy function that could be used to get a sub string that lies in between two other sub strings in one big string. For example... get the text that lies in between title and /title (without the quotes) in the code of a web page. I'm after a function like: string

[PHP] Get the title from an HTML page

I'll be loading the contents of an HTML page into a variable and I need to get the title of the from that variable. Basically I need to ge the text from in between the title tags. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mralston.co.uk / -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] About MS SQL

Think you might need to enable the ms sql server module in the php.ini file. -- Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mralston.co.uk / Hassan Arteaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 7F548E90E63BD1118E4600609707771F8BEFF9@goliath">news:7F548E90E63BD1118E4600609707771F8BEFF9@goliath... Hi all

Re: [PHP] About MS SQL

from what i recall there is a line (to enable ms sql server support) in the php.ini file already that just needs uncommenting. have a look right through the file...there's one for sql server 6.5 and one for 7. -- Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mralston.co.uk / Hassan Arteaga [EMAIL

Re: RE: RE: [PHP] About MS SQL

you might have to restart your webserver/php if it's apache you might need to recompile it or something...i've not compiled php into apache before...am using it as a cgi...so i'm not sure -- Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mralston.co.uk / Hassan Arteaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message