formatting mktime

[CanMan2004]

Hi all

I have a php page which I print todays mktime, the value im left with it something like

1167609600

It prints this in the url, such as

[code]www/checkdate.php?date=1167609600&area=2[/code]

How can I convert this so that I can print the month value (ie: 11 for November, 06 for June) and then print the year value (ie: 2007).

Can anyone help me? Getting totally stuck on this

Thanks in advance

Dave

[Ninjakreborn]

Yes, pass the timestamp into the date function.

You can format it, using hte modifiers in this reference on the php manual.
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
It will be
$date = date("modification based on that table goes here""timestamp", "modification based on that table goes here");

[CanMan2004]

Hello

I have used

[code]$newdate = mktime(1170115200 );
echo date("Y-m", $newdate);[/code]

But it doesnt seem to convert it, any ideas?

[Jessica]

If you just want to use today's time, you can leave the timestamp part blank.
echo date("Y-m-d");
to get the current time, do time(), not mktime.

[CanMan2004]

Ive got a

mktime

of

1170115200

and I want to convert this back into

date("Y-m")

Does that help?

[Jessica]

mktime is not a datatype, so saying you've got a mktime doesn't help, because it doesn't make sense. I think what you have is a timestamp.
$timestamp = 1170115200;
echo date("Y-m", $timestamp);

[CanMan2004]

Yes, I was wrong, you were right. Thank you