[SOLVED] Formatting a date other than today's?

[kernelgpf]

I'm trying to get the English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (the "th", "nd", etc.) like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.

 

To format TODAY'S date, I know you do..

 

$day3=date('S');

 

But how do I figure out another date's "S"? I have a string named $day, and I need to figure out it's "S", if that makes sense.

 

Thanks!

[DarkWater]

Use mktime() to get the timestamp for the date and use it as the second parameter to the date() function.

[wildteen88]

Alternatively Convert the the date to a unix timestamp (using strtotime()), then use date() like so:

$date = '12/09/2008';

$utime = strtotime($date);

echo date('S', $utime);

[DarkWater]

Either works.  I wasn't sure how he had the date stored.

[kernelgpf]

It worked. Thanks guys!

 

I'm a girl.

[DarkWater]

I wasn't sure how she had the date stored. =P  Sorry.