Reformat date

[proctk]

Hi I have a date value assigned to a variable $date which is in this format 2008-03-05.  How would I use php to reorganize the date so that is reads

 

Wednesday, March 05 2008

 

Thank you

[uniflare]

try

 

<?php

// Date
$touchoftechDate = "2008-03-05";

// Split String into an Array
$array = explode("-",$touchoftechDate);

// Implode the array into a String in the correct order
$touchoftechDate = implode("-",array($array[2],$array[1],$array[0]));

// strtotime will convert the string to a timestamp, date() will convert the timestamp to a formmated date.
$date = date("l, F m Y",strtotime($touchoftechDate));

// echo the result
echo($date);

?>

 

Dates MUST be in format: YYYY-MM-DD

 

you could also wrap this into a function

 

 

hope this helps,

[proctk]

thank you for the post however I think there is a small glitch in the code

 

2008-03-11

 

returns

 

March 03 2008

 

any idea why

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Because the "m" in the date() function format string means month. "d" or "j" would be needed to give the day number. Using (or debugging) any code involves making use of the programming language manual. uniflare just gave a quick example of how you could do this and it was likely untested, like most of the quick code examples that are posted in a forum. When it did not work, you could have used the manual to find out why and make it work yourself.

 

In fact all the code to explode and implode the date is unnecessary because strtotime() works on a yyyy-mm-dd format.

[kenrbnsn]

Use:

<?php
$date = '2008-03-05';
echo date('l, F j Y',$date);
?>

 

Ken

[proctk]

I tested this code and it does not work

 

it returns

 

Wednesday, December 31 1969

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

There needs to be a strtotime() function in there.

[proctk]

how would I work that in

[Naez]

<?php
$date = '2008-03-05';
$date = strtotime($date)
echo date('l, F j Y',$date);
?>

my guess

[proctk]

The last post worked, thank you for all the help