> when retrieving a date from MySQL in nYYYY/MM/DD, how can I present
this
> to
> the user of a site in readable format i.e. 19th March 2003?

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(column,' ... ') AS f_date FROM table WHERE ...

Look up DATE_FORMAT in the MySQL manual, Chapter 6. It works almost the
same as the PHP date() function. The ' ... ' would be the pattern to
create '19th March 2003'

---John W. Holmes...

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