Question

How do I format facebook’s date string using php into something a bit prettier?

the format returned by the facebook graph api is

2011-08-26T15:50:21+0000

but I would like to display it in the format

26 August at 15:50

how would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Use strtotime this will return a unix timestamp that you can then apply date on in your own format e.g..

$date = strtotime("2011-08-26T15:50:21+0000");
echo date("F j, Y, g:i a", $date);