Question

I have the following two names in MySQL table:

message is type text

date is type datetime

<?php
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
     <td><div><a><? echo $row['message'] ?></a></div></td>
     <td><div><a><? echo $row['date']; ?></a></div></td>
</tr>
<?php
 }
?>

The output of the above table shows date in this format 2012-08-05 17:43:57

How to print date in this format 2012-08-05 (without time)?

I cannot change type datetime in MySQl (it’s required in different pages in different formats).

I’ve tried the following, but it doesn’t help (no printing at all)

<td><div><a><? echo $rows['date'](“Y-m-d”); ?></a></div></td>

p.s. other combinations of date format give me syntax error.

Any suggestion would be much appreciated,

Answer 1

You want

<?php echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($row['date'])); ?>

strtotime converts your datestring into a unix-timestamp

then, the date function formats it properly according to the string.