[SOLVED] how to format the time_stamp date

[quickstopman]

i know this is probly something i should have learned along time ago but

i have to idea on how to format the date so it doesn't look like

2007-07-16 19:45:30

and make it look like this

July 16, 2007 7:45pm

thanks in advance for the help

[Wildbug]

date('F j, Y g:ia',strtotime('2007-07-16 19:45:30'));

[quickstopman]

how exactly would i implement it in the script?

just put in on the top?

or set it as some kind of variable

[Daniel0]

strtotime takes a formatted date and converts it to a UNIX timestamp. date takes a UNIX timestamp and formats it accordingly to the given format.

 

See: http://php.net/strtotime and http://php.net/

[Wildbug]

Where are you getting your date from?

 

<?php

$mydate = '2007-07-16 19:45:30';

echo date('F j, Y g:ia',strtotime($mydate));

?>

 

 

(If you're drawing the dates from a database, you can also format them in the query using DATE_FORMAT().  Seems like I answered this issue at least thrice today.)

[quickstopman]

i figured out how to get it too work