Question

i fetched from created field date and time like this format 2011-3-10 17:26:50 and i want to convert to this format March 13, 2010 how can i do this with php or cakephp 1.3

     <?php

  $i = 0;
foreach($articles as $$article ):

                 ?>
                <tr>
                    <td><?php echo $article['Article']['title']; ?></td>
                    <td><?php echo $article['Article']['created'];;?></td>
                </tr>
                <?php endforeach; ?>

Answer 1

I presume you mean “fetched” as in retrieving from MySQL. The simplest/quickest (but also the most like to blow up and kick your dog) is to simply do

$timestamp = strtotime($date_from_database);
$formatted = date('F j, Y', $timestamp);