Re: convert date format

try preg_match('#([0-9]{1,4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}))#', $row['date'], $matches); $month = array('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'); $converted_date = $matches[3]." ".$month[$matches[2]]. " ".$matches[1]; untested... On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:52:04 +0200, Angelo Zanetti <angelo@zlogic.co.za> wrote: > hi guys, > > I need to convert a date from this format: 2005-03-25 to 25 mar 2005. > I have tried the mktime, strftime and the date functions but they all > take a time stamp but I only have the dates in the format of 2005-03-25. > > These are what i tried where $row['date'] is 2005-02-24 but they all > return 01 Jan 1970??? > > echo(mktime(0,0,0, date("j", $row['date']), date("M", > $row['date']), > date("Y", $row['date']))); > echo(strftime("%d", $row['date']) . " " . > strftime("%b", $row['date']). > " " . strftime("%Y", $row['date'])); > echo(date("d",$row['date'] ) . " " . date("M", > $row['date']) . " " . > date("Y",$row['date'] )); > > thanks in advance > angelo > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >