Re: help with date formatting

"Ryan" <SpanglerRP22@uww.edu> wrote in message news:20020318115107.6357ecb0.SpanglerRP22@uww.edu... > Hi, I'm trying to create an events page, where it shows the posted > events. I enter data using phpmyadmin. Currently, the ouput is like > this: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Conference in New York > 2002-03-06 > > There is going to be a conference in New York next week. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm having trouble with the formatting of the date. I'm using the type > date with the function now, so it shows the current date when I post an > event. Here is what I would like: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Conference in New York > Wednesday, March 5th, 2002 > > There is going to be a conference in New York next week. > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are using the mktime() to make a UNIX timestamp you could do something like this: <? $conftime = mktime($hour, $minute, $seconds, $month, $day, $year); echo date("l, F jS, Y", $conftime); ?> -- Joshua E Minnie CIO josh@acsurf.net "Don't work for recognition, but always do work worthy of recognition."