Try strftime it allows you to take a timestamp created by time() and format it as required. heres the man page for it: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
"Matt Newell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks a bunch torsten. it worked like a charm and i'm off to read up some more on strtotime. best, m. -----Original Message----- From: Torsten Roehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] datetime formatting problem "Daniel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isn't "date" a reserved word? date and dateTime are not reserved in MySQL and can be used as column names. > > > hi all - > > > > this is probably straight forward, but i'm learning and would > > appreciate any insight. > > > > i'm using the datetime type in mysql and have been able to > > successsfully pull the data records's date, but it's failing out and > > giving me the current time [as in what it says on my system's clock] > > > > basically i'm just spitting out all the rows to an html table and > > would like to have the date AND time formatted as is in the > > date(...) function at the top of the code demo. > > > > thanks! > > matt > > > > ///// begin code demo > > > > > > function formatDate($val) > > { > > $arr = explode("-", $val); > > return date("M d, Y g:i A", mktime(0,0,0, $arr[1], $arr[2], > > $arr[0])); } Hi Matt, try this: function formatDate($val) { $timestamp = strtotime($val); return date('M d, Y g:i A', $timestamp); } Regards, Torsten Roehr > > > > > > // open database connection > > $connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Unable to > > connect!"); > > > > // select database > > mysql_select_db($db) or die ("Unable to select database!"); > > > > // generate and execute query > > $query = "SELECT * FROM outdoor ORDER BY id ASC"; $result = > > mysql_query($query) or die ("Error in query: $query. " . > > mysql_error()); > > > > > > // if records present > > if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) > > { > > // iterate through resultset > > // print title with links to edit and delete scripts while($row = > > mysql_fetch_object($result)) { ?> <tr> <td><? echo $row->id; ?></td> > > <td><? echo $row->name; ?></td> <td><a href="mailto:<? echo > > $row->email; ?>"><? echo $row->email; ?></a></td> <td><? echo > > $row->zip ?></td> <td><? echo formatDate($row->date); ?></td> <td><? > > echo $row->club_member ?></td> <td><? echo $row->driver ?></td> > > <!-- <td><font size="-1"><? echo $row->active ?></font></td> --> > > > > <td><center><a href="edit.php?id=<? echo $row->id; ?>"><img > > src="notepad.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" border="0"></a> <a > > href="delete.php?id=<? echo $row->id; ?>"><img src="trashcan.gif" > > alt="" width="16" height="16" border="0"></a></center></td> </tr> <? > > } > > } > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, > > visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
