RE: [PHP] Stumped on a function

Why don't you just use DATE_FORMAT() in your query, then you don't have to do any extra PHP code at all?? ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Soza [mailto:solja@gci.net] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:50 AM > To: PHP-General Mailing List > Subject: [PHP] Stumped on a function > > I've been using the following function successfully for months, tonight I > literally copied/pasted it to another page I was creating, called it > exactly > the same using the same data type, and I'm getting an incorrect result. > The > function is supposed to take a standard MySQL "CCYY-MM-DD" date format and > convert it to a "Month Day, CCYY" format. Here's the function code: > > function cleandate($indate) { > str_replace("-", "/", $indate); > return date("F j, Y", strtotime($indate)); > } > > And I'm calling it with: > > $newdate = cleandate($birthdate); > > $birthdate is a MySQL DATE field and if I echo "$birthdate" I get > "2002-11-04", which is what is entered for that $birthdate record. > However, > when I echo $newdate using the above code, I get "June 20, 2002" - today's > date. > > Now, again I'm using this code as-is successfully on another page. I don't > understand why it's returning today's date on this page, but returning the > correct date on another page. > > This is the error that PHP is throwing regarding the above code: > [Thu Jun 20 23:16:38 2002] [error] PHP Warning: strtotime() called with > empty time parameter in test.php on line 19 > > Line 19 is the 'return' line in the function. I do not get this error in > my > successful application of this code. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance... > > Jason Soza > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php