Re: Date Formatting

Instead of performing the explode() use strtotime(). It should work. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Deliduka" <thomas@neweve.com> To: "PHP List" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Date Formatting On 9/13/00 2:27 AM this was written: > I have a date in a table in the format d-m-y, but when it is read out onto the > screen it comes out in the opposite order. What I am hoping to do is get it > into m-d-y order, or better still long format (eg. 9th September, 2000). Does > anyone know if this is possible, and if so how it is done? $thedate = explode("-",<date formatted in Y-m-d>); echo date("jS F, Y", mktime(0,0,0,$thedate[1], $thedate[2], $thedate[0]); This will do it for you. -- Thomas Deliduka IT Manager ------------------------- New Eve Media The Solution To Your Internet Angst http://www.neweve.com/ -- 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