Matthew Ralston wrote:
>
> 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", $dbtable[date]);
>
> but I always get "1st January 1970" because I don't know how to convert the
> MySQL date into a PHP timestamp.
>
> Can someone tell me how to do it please?
>
Maybe it's not very nice, but it works:
<?
list($y,$m,$d) = explode('-', $dbtable['date']);
print date("jS F Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
?>
Hope this helps.
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Pavel a.k.a. Papi
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