RE: [PHP-WIN] Formatting a date

You've obviously started your homework, so I'll give you a piece of code I'm using for a similar news include $date = date ("l, F j, Y", strtotime (odbc_result ($sql_story_result, "date")) --------------------- John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 > -----Original Message----- > From: Warwick Chapman (Budgee) [mailto:Budgee@ghs.kzn.school.za] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:14 AM > To: Asendorf, John > Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Formatting a date > > > Hi All > > Can that function be used for formatting a date which has been > pulled out of a DB, cause the dates which come out of my Access > DB look bloody silly (http://www.glenwoodhighschool.co.za/news), > I'd rather have them in words and numbers. > > Thanks > Budgee > > On 12 Oct 00, at 8:08, Asendorf, John wrote: > > > And the best way to do that now is by typing: > > > > www.php.net/date > > > > or > > > > www.php.net/time > > > > into your browser... it's pretty cool. Functions can now > be found that way > > on php.net > > > > > > --------------------- > > John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com > > Web Applications Developer > > http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! > > Licking County, Ohio, USA > > 740-349-3631 > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Zak Greant [mailto:zak@php.net] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:57 PM > > > To: Todd Cary > > > Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Formatting a date > > > > > > > > > At 03:38 PM 10/11/00 -0700, Todd Cary wrote: > > > >How do I print today's and and time? > > > > > > Read the manual entries on time () and date () > > > > > > >How do I set a variable so that it has the number of > seconds since > > > >epoch? Is it > > > > > > > >$myday = time(); > > > > > > Hum... You had better try that one out and see :) > > > > > > - zak > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > Warwick Chapman (1999) > Assistant IT Manager > Glenwood High School, Durban, South Africa > 031 2055241 > 083 7797094 > www.glenwoodhighschool.co.za >