In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > Hi, > > You might already be fed up with my posts but I'm a complete PHP newbie and find > these groups are the best way to learn! Anyway I have the database date in the > format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss e.g. 2004-02-24 07:57:59 but when in some situations I > only want to show the user the date in the format dd-mm-yyyy what is the correct / > best php function to use for this purpose ? > > Cheers. > > Matt
If you are pulling the dates from mysql, you could use the DATE_FORMAT in mysql to present them in the required format. -- Quod subigo farinam A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php