Date format

[xionhack]

Hello. I'm pulling a date from a database through the php. When I pull it up it will say something like 2009-06-02. What I want it to do is to put it "February the 6th 2009". How can I do that? Thanks!

[TheLoveableMonty]

date('F \t\h\e jS Y');

 

That's the one.

[xionhack]

What I want is to modify a date that is already in a variable with that format. How can I do it? Thanks!

[anthylon]

Hello,

 

TheLoveableMonty explained date/time format option. So if you need to apply it you should use the following syntax:

date("format string", datevalue);

 

But this will not work in your case as you get string-date from your database. You need to convert it to timestamp in order to use date format option.

 

 

This would be solution for you:

$my_date = strtotime($my_date);
echo date('F \t\h\e jS o' , $my_date);

 

Explanation of strtotime function:

it parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp (PHP 4, PHP 5)

int strtotime ( string time [, int now] );

 

Good luck