Question

I am having difficulty formatting a string to a human-readable date format.

I have:

07122012

and need to get

7 Dec 2012

Tried:

date("j M Y", strtotime($str));

Answer 1

try:

$str = "07122012";
$stryear = substr($str,-4);
$strmonth = substr($str,2,2);
$strday = substr($str,0,2);

echo date("j M Y", strtotime($stryear.'-'.$strmonth.'-'.$strday));

it will do the trick, but the best thing is to read the php documentation (probably there is a built in feature)