RE: [PHP] Date-format

I know everyone love to quote read the manual and forget that we[newbies] are only asking here because we need help...so here you go... You can do the following... DATE_FORMAT IS THE MySQL Command And let say you want to format your date as the following mm-dd-yy(US) or dd-mm-yy(the rest of the world). By the way this are format keys.... %m the month in numbers, %d the days in numbers, %y the year in number %M spells out the month %D gives the date with th, rd, nd all that %Y gives all four numbers So you do the following sql statement... SELECT DATE_FORMAT(yourdate, '%m-%d-%y') as youwanttocallit FROM yourtable; So in your php code you can do this from your MySQL statement... $youwantcallit = $myrow[youwanttoit]; <? echo $youwanttocallit; ?> Advance note then if you don't want to show 00-00-00 you can do this... if ($youwanttocallit == "00-00-00") { $youwanttocallit = "&nbsp;"; } that way you don't have a bunch of 00-00-00 showing up. I hope that helps, because that is what the maillisting is for and not to always quote "Read the Book". Chuck Payne Magi Design and Support