Re: Converting english date formats to french....

You can use PHP to format the date: http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.date.php or use MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_and_time_functions.html see DATE_FORMAT() Fred Vincent Beaulieu <vbeaulie@uottawa.ca> wrote in message news:004001c18741$ffba54b0$1b737a89@universiqhgcnn... > Hi All, > > Does anyone have a quick and easy trick to convert dates from a MySQL > database from English to French? I have a Calendar that uses PHP and > MySQL....works wonderfully in English...having trouble converting the > dates to a French format though. > > Are there built-in MySQL or PHP functions that would allow easy > conversion of the dates to French for on-screen viewing??? I don't care > about the database content at all, only about the content displayed on > the screen during calendar viewing. I have looked all over and the only > solution seems to be to re-write a lot of my code to incorporate the > French formats. I'm hoping to not have to do much to implement the > French side of this project....if possible! Is this possible? > > Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! > > Vincent >