Question

I am getting this result when trying to access my twitter feed with PHP:

Sat Apr 07 07:29:11 +0000 2012 

How can I change it so it’s only “Apr 07“?

Code I am using:

   $tweets = getTweets("http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/justinbieber.json?count=3");
      foreach($tweets as $tweet) {

        $time = $tweet->created_at;


}

Answer 1

Use strtotime() to convert it to a timestamp and then format it using strftime() or date().

echo strftime('%h %d', strtotime('Sat Apr 07 07:29:11 +0000 2012'));
# Apr 07

So in your case:

$time = strftime('%h %d', strtotime($tweet->created_at));

However, calling a variable containing month and day “time” is a really bad idea. It’s a date after all.