Question

I am receiving the error: A non well formed numeric value encountered

Here is my code:

<?php

$timestamp= '2013-01-20 18:20:20';

$datetime= date('F j, Y', $timestamp);

    echo $datetime;

?>

This returns January 1, 1970 Which isn’t right. What am I doing wrong?
BTW: All of my $timestamp variables will be in that format. I am using datetime in my MySQL database table.

Thanks

Answer 1

the date function takes a timestamp which is an int
you need to call it using

date('F j, Y', time());

or

$timestamp= '2013-01-20 18:20:20';
date('F j, Y', strtotime($timestamp));

see http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php for info on how to use the date function