Question

I am trying to convert a date in format (yyyy-mm-dd) to a textual date format like Monday 21 Jan 2012 using PHP. I have tried using mktime() function but I’m a novice and I cant figure it out.
Any help will be grealty appreciated.

e.g :-   convert 2012-04-27 => Friday 27 April 2012

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can make use of the DateTime class (which is recommended over strtotime):

$date = new DateTime($date_string);
$textual = $date->format("l j M Y");