simple date format error

[hoogie]

Hi,

 

I'm having a strange problem formatting dates.  I'm looping through an array of dates from a database.  If I do it this way:

 

^<?php

 

^{foreach ($date_array as $d) {}

    ^{echo date($d);}

^}

 

^?>

 

I get a bunch of 2008-02-15s, which is the correct date.  However, I only want the day number, so I write it like this:

 

_<?php

 

_{foreach ($date_array as $d) {}

    _{echo date("d", $d);}

_}

 

_?>

 

This returns a bunch of 31s.  Upon further investigation, I realized that when I try to format the date it returns December 31, 1969, no matter what my variable date is.  I've done some google searching, and as far as I can tell I'm writing the code right, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

 

I'm running

XAMPP for Linux 1.6.5a

PHP 5.2.5

MySQL 5.0.51

 

I have a feeling there is a simple answer to this question but I have been unable to find it.  Thanks for your help.

[kenrbnsn]

The date() function wants to see a UNIX timestamp as the second parameter, not a string.

 

You want to use something like:

<?php
foreach ($date_array as $d) {
     echo date("d", strtotime($d)).'<br>';
}

?>

 

Ken

[hoogie]

That was it.  Thank you very much.