Question

I have in a MySQL table a DATE column that represents the date in this format: YYYY-MM-DD.

I wanto to retrieve the date from the database using PHP but display it like this: DD Month, YYYY.

From ‘2009-04-13′ to ’13 April, 2009’ for example.

Witch is the best way to do it?? ( I know how to get the date from the DB. I only need to know how to convert it)

I also need to display the month names in Spanish. There is a way to do it without translating each month using strplc or something like that??

I’m new to programming, please be detailed.

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Refer to DATE_FORMAT() function in MySQL. I guess that’s the best way for you to do it.

Also, you can make this:

• Fetch your date from DB
• Use strtotime in PHP, to convert to unix time
• Then format the time using date.

By using date() you’ll be able to get months names in Spanish when you set your locale in PHP with setlocale.