Re: a quick date and session id question

Hi Sandeep, @ 10:33:16 PM on 4/15/2001, Sandeep Hundal wrote: ... > NOw they will probably be given a form which allows them to choose, > and then gets inputted into the datase as a number : YYYYMMDD. But I > want to display the data as "Monday, 20 April 2001. How can I do > this? Yes, with strtotime(): <?php function decipherDate($string, $format) { if(!$formatted = @date($format, strtotime($string))) return 'Unable to understand decipher date string.'; return $formatted; } /* Sunday, April 15 20001 */ print decipherDate('20010415',"l, j F Y"); print "\n"; /* 'Unable to understand decipher date string. */ print decipherDate('thisisgarbage234',"l, j F Y"); print "\n"; /* Tuesday, 8 March 2005 */ print decipherDate('march 8, 2005',"l, j F Y"); ?> ... > Secondly, Anyone know fof a good tutorial explaining what sessionid's > in php are for and how to use them?? Try here: <http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/mattias20000105.php3> -Brian -- PGP is spoken here: 0xE4D0C7C8 Please, DO NOT carbon copy me on list replies.