Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

2001-05-23 Thread Ethan Schroeder
ot;Pavel Jartsev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Ralston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 6:21 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001) > Matthew Ralston wrote: > > > &g

Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Ralston
Thanks Papi, That works fine. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] < www.mralston.co.uk /> Pavel Jartsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Matthew Ralston wrote: > > > > I've got a date stored in a MySQL database in a "DATE" field, so it is > > stored as "200

Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

2001-05-23 Thread Pavel Jartsev
Matthew Ralston wrote: > > I've got a date stored in a MySQL database in a "DATE" field, so it is > stored as "2001-05-21". How do I convert that into a more friendly date like > "21 May 2001" or even "21st May 2001" for display on a web page? > > I've tried > > print date("jS F Y", $dbtable[da

Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

2001-05-23 Thread Miles Thompson
Mathew, Great that they're backwards from one another, isn't it? The regular expression wizards probably have some marvellous trick up their sleeve, and Manuel Lemos probably has a class that will do this. You can do it yourself by using substring functions to extract the parts of the date, r

Re: [PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

2001-05-23 Thread Wieger Uffink
You could consider using DATE_FORMAT() when pulling the date out of the MySQL Table. HAve a look in the mysql manpages for the ezxact syntax Wieger Matthew Ralston wrote: > > I've got a date stored in a MySQL database in a "DATE" field, so it is > stored as "2001-05-21". How do I convert tha

[PHP] Converting MySQL Date (2001-05-21) to Friendly Date (21 May 2001)

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Ralston
I've got a date stored in a MySQL database in a "DATE" field, so it is stored as "2001-05-21". How do I convert that into a more friendly date like "21 May 2001" or even "21st May 2001" for display on a web page? I've tried print date("jS F Y", $dbtable[date]); but I always get "1st January 197