can not format the date correctly, please help

[jasonc]

What I am trying to do is grab the date part and format it as so..

 

dd-mm-yyyy

 

this is my code which shows the error...

 

Warning:  date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTime, string given in **** on line 25

 

how would i correctly get the date part and format it.

 

$post_time = "2010-04-26 18:12:00";
$datestring = date_format($post_time, 'd-m-Y');

[andrewgauger]

I think you need to instantiate an object here.

 

$post_time = new date("2010-04-26 18:12:00");
$datestring = date_format($post_time, 'd-m-Y');

[de.monkeyz]

Use strftime and strtotime

 

$post_time = "2010-04-26 18:12:00";
$time = strotime($post_time); //Convert to timestamp!
$datestring = strftime('%d-%m-%Y', $post_time);

 

Or as andrew said, use a date object.

[jasonc]

Use strftime and strtotime

 

$post_time = "2010-04-26 18:12:00";
$time = strotime($post_time); //Convert to timestamp!
$datestring = strftime('%d-%m-%Y', $post_time);

 

Or as andrew said, use a date object.

 

thank you i used this reply to fix my coding.

[andrewgauger]

Just remember that you will be limited to the timestamp range of 1970 - 2038 so as long as you aren't doing comparison to future or past events (such as birthdays) that way is more efficient.