Re: date functions
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:38:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: date functions | ||
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In article <BAY8-DAV51gI6bXmdMJ000003de@hotmail.com>,
matthewoatham@hotmail.com says...
> Hi,
>
> You might already be fed up with my posts but I'm a complete PHP newbie and find these
> groups are the best way to learn! Anyway I have the database date in the format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
> e.g. 2004-02-24 07:57:59 but when in some situations I only want to show the user the date in the
> format dd-mm-yyyy what is the correct / best php function to use for this purpose ?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Matt
If you are pulling the dates from mysql, you could use the DATE_FORMAT in
mysql to present them in the required format.
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