Converting the month from yyyy-mm-dd

[dadedidhodong]

I have a php program which accepts the input of the YYYY-MM-DD as the date format and stores it to the database. As soon as the user enters the date with YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g 1990-06-22) how can I convert the 06 (or the MM part) to June as in the 6th month of the year?

[cyberRobot]

Is there a reason why you don't want to store the date as YYYY-MM-DD? That format is more useful for things like sorting.

 

When displaying the data, you could always use MySQL's date_format() function:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format

[incipience]

<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
echo $date->format('F j, Y');
?>

This would display as January 1, 2000

[Evan_McIntosh]

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Vancouver');

$date = '2099-12-31';

echo date('F j, Y', strtotime($date));
?>

 

= December 31, 2099

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Edited August 19, 2013 by Evan_McIntosh

[dadedidhodong]

thank you very much guyz :]