Comments on: Breaking & Fixing Dates from MySQL to PHP

By: Maor

Maor — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:03:17 +0000

There’s another simple way to do that. I just posted something about it last week. The post itself in Hebrew, but you can still view the short code there and see..

First way is to select from db using DATE_FORMAT functions.

Second way is to format date with PHP on the returned date from DB.

Heres’ the link –
http://www.maorb.info/tech/2010-01/format-date-php-mysql

You may reply there in English if you want to.. :-)

By: Eman

Eman — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:28:43 +0000

I realize this is an older post, but I’d like to add that (since php5) there is also the DateTime class, which lets you format the date similar to php’s date function, like below, however I would suggest formatting date in Sql…
$datetime = new DateTime(’2008-11-19′); // (or database variable)
echo $datetime->format(‘D dS m, Y’); // prints Wed 19th 11, 2008

By: torkil

torkil — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:18:44 +0000

@Nagendra: Use the date_format function in MySQL to fetch the date on a different format. For instance:

select date_format(date, “%D %b %y”) AS `formatted_date`

This would convert the YYYY-MM-DD column “date” into your wanted formatting.

By: Nagendra

Nagendra — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:22:19 +0000

I want to convert the date obtaining from the database(mysql) into another format(2009-09-18 into 18th Sep’09) using php. Please help me.
Thanking you in advance,
Nagendra.

By: thanhquanky

thanhquanky — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:30:47 +0000

@Doug:

$old = strtotime($yourtime);
$new = date(“F d, y”,$old);

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:58:33 +0000

Hi David,

This really helped me out. Thanks a lot!

Question:
First, I admit, I’m a newbie at PHP and mySQL so maybe this question is a bit too naive for this post. Just wondering how to go from the new MM-DD-YYYY format to something like “December 31, 07″

Would I do it in the function or inline in the output code somewhere? Thanks

By: mescript

mescript — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:37:51 +0000

@Jay is best one

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:13:46 +0000

In response to Mark's comment, you might want to look at the ISO standards to see why dates are stored in the format they are: Wikipedia article

By: david

david — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:23:20 +0000

@Jay: Nice script, but you’re missing “)”‘s at the end of each strtotime() to close the date function.

By: Jay Salvat

Jay Salvat — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:57:10 +0000

Hi David,
The simpliest way is the strtotime way.

function break_date($date)
{
return date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime($date);
}

function fix_date($date)
{
return date(‘m/d/Y’, strtotime($date);
}