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sandhyagupta

07-07-2009 12:20 PM

How to covert the date into dd-mon-yyyy format?

Hi

I am fetching the date from a particular table. now i wanna convert that date into dd-mon-yyy(eg: 07-jul-2009)format before displaying it.How do i do this?

PHP Code:


		
			
$sql_stmt1 = "SELECT * FROM job_posting WHERE posted_by like '%$nickname%' ORDER BY job_posted_on DESC";



$result1  = mysql_query($sql_stmt1, $conn) or die(mysql_error());



while ($row1_array = mysql_fetch_assoc($result1))

{    

      $postedby = $row1_array["posted_by"];  

      $postid = $row1_array["post_id"];

      $position = $row1_array["position"];

      //echo '<a href="http://www.konanakunteokkoota.org/applyhereforjob.php?username='.$username.'&jobid='.$postid.'">'.$row1["position"].'</a>';  

  

      $joblevel = $row1_array["job_level"];

      

      $jobpostedon = $row1_array["job_posted_on"];

      //$convert1 = CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), GETDATE(), 106) AS [DD MON YYYY];

}

This is just the part of my code.

Thanks in advance.

codefreek

07-07-2009 01:37 PM

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

function formatdate( $s )

{

return date( "d-m-Y", strtotime( $s ) );

}



// how to use this function



echo formatdate( $result[ "DateUpdated" ] );

?>

strtotime converts arbitrary strings to date and time value that can be used with other date related functions. date function formats a given date and time value back to a string.

This query will help:

PHP Code:


		
			
$query = "SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT( DateUpdated, '%d-%m-%Y' ) AS FormattedDate FROM CharacterStats ORDER BY ID ASC";

The above query returns one additional column called FormattedDate that contains the DateUpdated in the desired format.

http://php.net/strtotime
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

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