Re: Numbers to Date

----- Original Message ----- From: "zavaboy" <zavaboy@hotmail.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:53 AM Subject: [PHP] Numbers to Date > This does have a little to do with my other post... the fact that we're > talkin about 5 digits... Anyway, I want to change a 5 digit number to a full > date: > > For example... > > The number: > 03135 //(Today) The first 2 digits indacate the year and > the last 3 indacate the day of the year (if the day is 1 or 2 digits it will > fill in the blanks with 0 eg: 03500 is Jan 5) > > I want PHP to find out the date and put it in this format: "Friday, May 16, > 2003" (no quotes) ( as if I used: date("l, F j, Y") ) > > I'm stumped on how to do this... Any help? First use substr() to parse the values of the 5 number date into separate variables. Then pass those variables to the mktime() function to retrieve a timestamp for that date. Then pass the timestamp to the date() function with your prefered format string. substr(); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php mktime(); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php date(); // which of course you already know about. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php HTH, Kevin