Question

I have a field in my table that holds strings in the form

"Thursday 19th April 2012" 

How would i go about altering this in either MYSQL or PHP so that i could perform a manipulation and find the difference between 2 dates?
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Answer 1

Here’s what you can do at PHP side (for version 5.3 or above):-

a) $newDate = DateTime::createFromFormat("l dS F Y",$dateFromDB);

( http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php)

b) $interval = $newDate->diff($datetime2);

(http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php)

You can see the date string format at http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php