Question

I have a MySQL database with a date column.

I create a variable of the value in PHP like this:

$query = mysql_query ("SELECT customer_date FROM customers WHERE customer_id = {$_SESSION['session_id']}");

while ($result = mysql_fetch_object($query)) {
    $date = $result->customer_date;
}

I need to convert the $datefrom YYYY-MM-DD to three variables

• $yearvalue (for example 2012)
• $monthname (for example August)
• $dayvalue (for example 10)

And I need to be able to echo out anywhere in my code… How would I do this in a fancy way? I’m pretty new to coding…

Answer 1

Here:

while ($result = mysql_fetch_object($query)) {
  $date = $result->customer_date;
  $yearvalue = date("Y", strtotime($date) );
  $monthname = date("F", strtotime($date) );
  $dayvalue = date("d", strtotime($date) );
}

It’ll only work/store the value of these values for the last row outputted from the $result.