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Formatting your dates (and times)

Tutorial created by Christopher West, Freelancer Looking for Work

Categories: PHP

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When storing date or datetime in the MySQL database it stores it in american format, for example:

2013-04-12 02:12:26

So when it comes for the need to output the above datetime to your website page, you would probably want to display it in a more user-friendly manner.

To view the PHP datetime attrributes visited the official PHP manual: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

arrow downFormatting DateTime from your Database Table

Here are some suggestions using PHP code and the corresponding display output ...

Step 1: Display as: Friday 12th April 2013

<?php echo date('l jS F Y',strtotime($row_YourRecordSet['YourTableName'])); ?>

Step 2: Display as: Friday 12th Apr 2013

<?php echo date('l jS M Y',strtotime($row_YourRecordSet['YourTableName'])); ?>

arrow downFormatting Current DateTime from the Server

This section is based on formatting the current datetime stamp from the LINUX server your website is hosted on:

Step 1: Display as: Friday 12th April 2013 3:59am

<?php echo date('l jS F Y G:sa'); ?>

Step 2: Display as: Friday 12th Apr 2013 3:58am

<?php echo date('l jS M Y G:sa'); ?>

Step 3: Display as: Friday 12th April 2013

<?php echo date('l jS F Y'); ?>

Step 4: Display as: Friday 12th Apr 2013

<?php echo date('l jS M Y'); ?>

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serhat_alpaslan: 10 Years, 3 Months, 1 Day, 12 Hours, 38 Minutes ago

thanks

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