RE: [PHP] Date Concat?

> I have two fields of type date in a MySQL table called training: > > start_date > end_date > > I can format the date using a select, for example > > SELECT > DATE_FORMAT(start_date, '%M %d, %Y') as start_date, > DATE_FORMAT(end_date, '%M %d, %Y') as end_date > FROM training > > This produces the following: > > start_date: September 16, 2002 > end_date: Sepetember 20, 2001 > > Based on the above, I would like to echo out something like this: > > You will be in training September 16 - 20, 2002. SELECT CONCAT( 'You will be training ', DATE_FORMAT(start_date,'%M %d'), ' - ', IF(MONTH(start_date)!=MONTH(end_date), DATE_FORMAT(end_date,'%M %d'), DATE_FORMAT(end_date,'%d')), ' ', YEAR(end_date)) FROM training Another option would be to just select out the individual month, day, and year out of the database, instead of a formatted date. Or select out a unix_timestamp and use date() to extract the individual parts and create your string... ---John Holmes...