PHP Date Format

WhatsGoingOn

Hi all,

any idea of how to convert a date in the format of 2005-06-10 to June 10th 2005?
If I use the date function $StartDate= date("F j, Y"); It gives me todays date, which is not what I want, I want to convert a date in the past.

Cheers.

Inspector Gadget

PHP's date() function takes an optional second parameter, which is your time in the form of a unix timestamp (i.e. the no. of seconds since midnight on Jan 1 1970...). There are other functions (such as mktime()) you can use to make suitable timestamps to stick in there.

This is real RTFM stuff, to be honest...
Gadget

WhatsGoingOn

Inspector Gadget wrote:

PHP's date() function takes an optional second parameter, which is your time in the form of a unix timestamp (i.e. the no. of seconds since midnight on Jan 1 1970...). There are other functions (such as mktime()) you can use to make suitable timestamps to stick in there.

This is real RTFM stuff, to be honest...
Gadget

Cheers Inspector, I managed to get it sorted

$StartDate= (date("j M Y", strtotime($StartDate)));

The Corinthian

Use the date function with a datestamp seeded using the mktime function.

The Corinthian

Inspector Gadget wrote:

This is real RTFM stuff, to be honest...

True.