Question

I know this probably isn’t as easy to answer when you don’t have all the various files at hand. But I’m just wondering could someone offer a clue as to where I could look for somewhere to change the format of the date in the wordpress plugin (leaguemanager).

In a table I have echo $match->date." "

I have looked around and found this in another file in a for loop…

$match->date = ( substr($match->date, 0, 10) == '0000-00-00' ) ? 'N/A' :         
mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $match->date); 

I know this is a bit vague, but I’m still in the early days of learning php and am more so just looking for a clue as to what I should be looking for, rather than an actual answer itself, I know how to change date formats with php, but I just don’t where to find this particular one to change.
At the moments its showing as September 28, 2012 , I just want d m , which would be 28/09

EDIT: one more bit of info I found in a file called ajax.php

$date_format = $_POST['date_format'];

Answer 1

I think you are looking for the strtotime function:

echo date('j/m', strtotime($match->date));

reference to date formats: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php