Question

I am using CakePHP 1.3 to write a application, and I create a datetime field in a database.

And I call it echo $post['Post']['created']; and I get something like 2011-07-03 00:00:00.

What I would like is for it to look more like Jan 1st 2008, 19:25.

I see some documentation in 7.12.1 Formatting (CakePHP manual), but how do implement it?

Answer 1

You need to the format the date using date(). See http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php and http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

echo date('M j Y, h:i', strtotime($post['Post']['created']));

A better solution would be to create a helper. The best place to learn about these is the CakePHP manual.