Re: [PHP] Date formating

[Jason Wong]

On Saturday 15 February 2003 16:56, Dhaval Desai wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a string in this format:
 2003-02-15 13:19:02

 I want to display it in a more readable format like Staurday, 11 Februardy,
 2003, 13:19:02. How can I achieve that. I tried date() function but could
 not get what I wanted.

strtotime(), strftime().

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Re: [PHP] Date formating

[Justin French]

?
echo date('the format you want', strtotime('2003-02-15 13:19:02'));
?

In this case 'the format you want' is 'l, d F, Y. H:i:s', but you should be
able to look it up in the manual for yourself. php.net/date

strtotime('2003-02-15 13:19:02') SHOULD work, converting the string to a
unix time stamp, which is what date() needs to work.

All this is available in the manual of course :)


Justin


on 15/02/03 7:56 PM, Dhaval Desai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I have a string in this format:
 2003-02-15 13:19:02
 
 I want to display it in a more readable format like Staurday, 11 Februardy,
 2003, 13:19:02. How can I achieve that. I tried date() function but could
 not get what I wanted.
 
 -Dhaval
 
 
 
 
 
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RE: [PHP] Date formating

[David Freeman]

  I have a string in this format:
  2003-02-15 13:19:02
 
  I want to display it in a more readable format like
  Staurday, 11 Februardy,
  2003, 13:19:02. How can I achieve that. I tried date()
  function but could
  not get what I wanted.

The date format above is a standard mysql date/time format.  If this is
where you are getting that date from then your best method is probably
to do the date conversion as part of your mysql query.

You'll need to consult the mysql manual (chapter 6.something from
memory) where it talks about stuff useful in select statements.
Specifically, you're looking for DATE_FORMAT().

If your date is not coming from a database then you'll probably have to
convert the date string you have to a unix timestamp and then use DATE()
from there.

CYA, Dave





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