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Des
I am displaying records from a table including a stored date. When
display $row[Date], i get the obvious 2006-05-21. However this is not
what the guy wants. He wants 21-May-2006.

I have tried several conversion functions but without success. I could
do a long winded function, but i hoped there would be a simple
solution.

Any Ideas.

Desmond.

May 25 '06 #1
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Des wrote:
I am displaying records from a table including a stored date. When
display $row[Date], i get the obvious 2006-05-21. However this is not
what the guy wants. He wants 21-May-2006.

I have tried several conversion functions but without success. I could
do a long winded function, but i hoped there would be a simple
solution.

Any Ideas.

Desmond.


http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

-david-

May 25 '06 #2
NC
Des wrote:

I am displaying records from a table including a stored date. When
display $row[Date], i get the obvious 2006-05-21. However this is not
what the guy wants. He wants 21-May-2006.


First of all, make it a habit to write $row['Date'], not $row[Date].
The latter works for now, but may stop working in the future without
warning. This said, the code snippet you are looking for can look like
this:

date('j-M-Y', strtotime($row['Date']))

Cheers,
NC

May 25 '06 #3
Rik
Or strftime();

May 25 '06 #4
NC wrote:
Des wrote:

I am displaying records from a table including a stored date. When
display $row[Date], i get the obvious 2006-05-21. However this is not
what the guy wants. He wants 21-May-2006.
First of all, make it a habit to write $row['Date'], not $row[Date].


Good advice.
The latter works for now, but may stop working in the future without
warning. This said, the code snippet you are looking for can look like
this:

date('j-M-Y', strtotime($row['Date']))


strtotime() is very americanized. And 32 bit timestamps suck. A better
solution is to do the formatting in the DBMS if possible - assuming it's
MySQL, then use the DATE_FORMAT() function for Oracle, TO_CHAR() - don't
know about the rest.

HTH

C.
May 25 '06 #5

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