Question

I have a field in a database labelled “timestamp” that is recording the current_timestamp.

What PHP code do I need to write in order to get the current_timestamp (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) to display as something a little more reader friendly, i.e. (April 30, 2012 at 3:45pm)

Answer 1

Great resource for this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

$dateTimeVariable = date("F j, Y \a\t g:ia");

This will give you that format of the current time (which seemed to be what you were getting at), otherwise you need to pass the timestamp in after the date format string.