Haluk,
After you retrieve the date from the database you still have to convert it
from a string to time and then to a date. Try:
<?php echo date("l j M Y, ", strtotime($row['PDate'])) ; ?>
Terry
On 2 May 2012 22:36, Haluk Karamete <halukkaram...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my code and the output is right after that...
>
> $PDate = $row['PDate'];
> //row is tapping into ms-sql date field.
> //and the ms-sql data field has a value like this for the PDate;
> //07/12/2001
> $PDate = $PDate->date;
> echo "<h1>[", $PDate , "]</h1>";
> echo "<h1>[", var_dump($row['PDate']) , "]</h1>";
> echo "<h1>[", serialize($row['PDate']) , "]</h1><hr>";
> the output is as follows. And my question is embedded in the output.
>
> [] ??? WHY IS THIS BLANK? WHY IS THIS NOT 2001-12-07 00:00:00?
>
> [object(DateTime)#3 (3) { ["date"]=> string(19) "2001-12-07 00:00:00"
> ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(19)
> "America/Los_Angeles" } ]
>
> [O:8:"DateTime":3:{s:4:"date";s:19:"2001-12-07
>
> 00:00:00";s:13:"timezone_type";i:3;s:8:"timezone";s:19:"America/Los_Angeles";}]
>
> if I were to directly insert the $row['date'] ms-sql value into mysq,
> I get this error;
> Catchable fatal error: Object of class DateTime could not be converted
> to string in ....sql.php on line 379
>
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