Question

I am inserting a date into a database with NOW() then I query the result. Here is the code.

    function get_content($id = ''){

if($id != ''):
    $id = mysql_real_escape_string($id);
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM cms_content WHERE id = '$id'";

    $return = '<p><a href="index.php">Back to Content</a></p>';
else:
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM cms_content ORDER BY id DESC";
endif;

    $res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

    if(mysql_num_rows($res) != 0):
        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
            echo '<h1><a href="index.php?id=' . $row['id'] . ' "> ' . $row['title'] . '</a></h1>';
            echo '<p>' . stripslashes($row['body']) . '</p>';
            **echo '<p>' . $row['date_posted'] . '</p>';**
            }
    else:
        echo '<p> You broke it!, this post dosn\'t exsist!';
    endif;

    echo $return;

The

echo '<p>' . $row['date_posted'] . '</p>'; 

is where I echo the date. When I echo this from the database I get 2012-07-25 19:00:46, because that’s what is in the database. My question is how would I echo the day, then echo the month, then the year. Ideally these would all be separate echos so I could style each differently.

Answer 1

Since the format is known, you can simply use this:

list($year,$month,$day) = explode("-",substr($row['date_posted'],0,10));

Then you can echo those variables however you want.