Re: odbc date

it is right but I want to select all data from a mdbdatabase table and I receive in 'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss' format. I told you I resolve this problem with date("F j, Y",strtotime(odbc_result($cur,"date"))). I what to know if I can receive a specific format from query "select date from my_table" -- Best regards, George Nicolae IT Manager ___________________ X-Playin - Professional Web Design www.x-playin.f2s.com "Andrew Hill" <ahill@openlinksw.com> wrote in message news:NDBBKFNCBCHANEGAKONKAEENLMAA.ahill@openlinksw.com... > George, > > The ODBC date syntax is best used for to make input format unambiguous, > e.g.: > > select * from orders where order_date = { d '2002-01-01'} > This will allow you to select from a table regardless of the date format. > > For converting a date from one format to another, select it from a table and > then use the PHP date() function to convert, e.g.: > > while (list ($timestamp) = each ($result_array)) > { > $new_format = date(Y-m-d, $timestamp); > echo "$new_format<br>"; > } > > Best regards, > Andrew Hill > Director of Technology Evangelism > OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com > Universal Data Access & Data Integration Technology Providers > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: George Nicolae [mailto:geomasterweb@hotmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:51 PM > > To: php-db@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] odbc date > > > > > > i did it with date("F j, Y",strtotime(odbc_result($cur,"date"))). > > but i very curios about the query. it must looke like..? > > select date from my_table????? > > > > -- > > > > > > Best regards, > > George Nicolae > > IT Manager > > ___________________ > > X-Playin - Professional Web Design > > www.x-playin.f2s.com > > > > > > > > > > > Or you can format it with odbc date syntax in your query { d > > 'YYYY-MM-DD' } > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > >