[SOLVED] number formatting

[The Little Guy]

I have a string like this: "Wednesday August 13, 2008 at 1:06 pm"

 

the string will all ways change, but the format will always be the same.

 

In the above string, I would like to take the 13 and do a function on it.

 

Here is what I have:

$mDate = date("l F d, Y \a\\t g:i a" ,filemtime('tos.php'));
echo preg_replace("~\s[0-9](.+?),~",' '.ordinal("$1").',',$mDate);

 

What it is doing is taking the string and adding a th, st, nd, and so on after the 13 or 12 or 1 or what ever it may be.

 

single digits are formatted with one char not 2 so one is 1 not 01.

 

my out put is as follows with that above code:

 

Wednesday August 3th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

 

As you can see it cut off the 1. Why?

[effigy]

Use "l F dS, Y \a\\t g:i a".

[The Little Guy]

I would like to place  tags around the th

 

how can I do that?

[effigy]

echo date('l F d<\s\u\p>S</\s\u\p>, Y \a\t g:i a', time());

[The Little Guy]

OH, WOW, didn't know you could do that, that is sweet, Thanks!