Question

I am retireiving date strings in the form Y-m-d from a mySQL table (ex. 2010-12-03) using an array $row[dt];

echo $row["dt"]; // in a while loop

I would like output that stored string as “Mar 2nd”

I have tried strtotime() and date( "m d", $row['dt'] ) but they don’t work.. the latter, for instance, just outputs “Dec 31”

can this be done? thanks

Answer 1

I believe this is the answer you are looking for. The reason for the j instead of the d is because the poster asked for Mar 2nd. Using d would output Mar 02nd.

echo date("M jS", strtotime($row['dt']));

Edit: M instead of m.