Re: reformatting date string

I just happend to write something similar yesterday to convert mysql date stamps. In that case, just explode at the hyphens. Here, we just convert the number to a string, then use string functions. It only looks long, because of the case statements that set the month. ---begin php--- $date = strval(20000826); $year = substr($date,0,4); $month = substr($date,4,2); $day = substr($date,6,2); switch($month){ case "01": $month = "January"; break; case "02": $month= "February"; break; case "03": $month = "March"; break; case "04": $month = "April"; break; case "05": $month = "May"; break; case "06": $month = "June"; break; case "07": $month = "July"; break; case "08": $month = "August"; break; case "09": $month = "September"; break; case "10": $month = "October"; break; case "11": $month = "November"; break; case "12": $month = "December"; break; } echo "$month $day, $year"; ---end php--- -David David Knape Web Application / Multimedia Developer dave@tkdave.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "dbarber" <dbarber@sailnet.com> Newsgroups: php3.general Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 10:03 AM Subject: [PHP] reformatting date string > Hi, > > I'm trying to do something which should be very simple, but I can't seem > to make it work with any of the date functions or regular > expressions. > > I'm trying to take a timestamp from in the format of '20000826' and > change it to 'Aug 26, 2000'. The timestamps change with every entry. > > If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. > > thanks, > > Dan > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >