This is all explained in the PHP manual under dates.
Assuming you have a field called 'date' with a timestamp in it,
you can format the date like this:
$date = date("l jS F Y", $date);
But there are a lot of options so read the manual.
Mick
> I want it such that when a user reads the news, he sees something like
>
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> Saturday 25th March 2001
> New mirror up on PHP - posted by Zeus @ 00:00 GMT +8
>
> news news news news news news news news news news news news news
> ---------------
>
> That sort of thing, how can I go about?
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> From: elias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 April, 2001 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Inserting time + date entry into mySQL DB
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> > No under windows doesn't work.
> > you have to enter a value in that field with value NOW()
> >
> > -elias
> > http://www.kameelah.org/eassoft
> >
> > "Michael Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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> > >
> > > Create a field in your table called something like 'date' and make its
> > > data type TIMESTAMP. MySQL will automatically add a timestamp with each
> > > new entry ... assuming you're using UNIX, I don't know about windows.
> > >
> > > Mick
> > >
> > > > I know this has been brought up repeatedly but I couldn't find the
> > archives website.
> > > > I'm doing a news publishing script (something like newsphp \ php-nuke)
> > but uses mySQL to store all the data instead of flat files.
> > > > I would like to make it such that everytime I submit an news entry,
> the
> > time\date will automatically be inserted in that row.
> > > > Could someone give me some suggestions?
> > >
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