Question

I have the following date format in a MySQL database and was wondering what would be the best method to reformat this date and output what I have in mind.

MySQL: 2012-04-12

Desired Output: Thursday, April 12 2012

Perhaps I could format it in the MySQL query?
Or with Java script?

Could anyone provide a sample of both so I could learn?

Answer 1

You have a lot of ways to do this:

• With MySQL, using DATE_FORMAT http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format
• With PHP, using strtotime and date: date('J, M d Y', strtotime($yourdate))
• With JavaScript, splitting the date at “-” and then creating your date again with new Date()
• Also (like explained by t0s6i), with JavaScript, you can use the library momentjs to do something like this: date = moment("2012-04-12", "DDDD, MMMM DD YYYY");.