On 9-11-2018 13:38, i...@synapsesoftware.co.uk [firebird-support] wrote: > I use Firebird primarily with Delphi and have had no problems with using > and displaying dates (suitable for my country - UK.) > > However, it seems to be a big problem with Firebird and dates when > working with PhP with firebird driver. I have a number of fields that > hold information in a field defined to be of type "date" in Firebird. > When I use PhP to query my database I get the fields formatted in the > ISO-8601 format (year/month/day.. etc).
Disclaimer: I don't use PHP, but a quick google suggested https://secure.php.net/manual/bg/function.ibase-timefmt.php; that seems to be a function that has been removed, but one of the comments suggested: ``` /** * Constant definitions that has been removed from PHP 5 */ const IBASE_DATE = "ibase.dateformat"; const IBASE_TIME = "ibase.timeformat"; const IBASE_TIMESTAMP = "ibase.timestampformat"; /** * Sets the format of timestamp, date or time type * columns returned from queries */ function ibase_timefmt($format, $where = IBASE_TIMESTAMP) { ini_set($where, $format); } ``` And https://secure.php.net/manual/en/ibase.installation.php (see first comment) suggests this can also be configured in the php.ini file. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel
