[PHP] Date Concat?

[Rankin, Randy]

I have two fields of type date in a MySQL table called training:

start_date
end_date
 
I can format the date using a select, for example

SELECT 
DATE_FORMAT(start_date, '%M %d, %Y') as start_date,
DATE_FORMAT(end_date, '%M %d, %Y') as end_date
FROM training
 
This produces the following:

start_date: September 16, 2002
end_date: Sepetember 20, 2001
 
Based on the above, I would like to echo out something like this:
 
You will be in training September 16 - 20, 2002.
 
Is this possible? 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Randy

RE: [PHP] Date Concat?

[John Holmes]

 I have two fields of type date in a MySQL table called training:
 
 start_date
 end_date
 
 I can format the date using a select, for example
 
 SELECT
 DATE_FORMAT(start_date, '%M %d, %Y') as start_date,
 DATE_FORMAT(end_date, '%M %d, %Y') as end_date
 FROM training
 
 This produces the following:
 
 start_date: September 16, 2002
 end_date: Sepetember 20, 2001
 
 Based on the above, I would like to echo out something like this:
 
 You will be in training September 16 - 20, 2002.

SELECT 
  CONCAT(
'You will be training ',
DATE_FORMAT(start_date,'%M %d'),
' - ',
IF(MONTH(start_date)!=MONTH(end_date),
  DATE_FORMAT(end_date,'%M %d'),
  DATE_FORMAT(end_date,'%d')),
' ',
YEAR(end_date)) 
FROM training

Another option would be to just select out the individual month, day,
and year out of the database, instead of a formatted date. Or select out
a unix_timestamp and use date() to extract the individual parts and
create your string...

---John Holmes...


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