Question

I think this is a simple question. We have a MySQL database with a DATE field, the date is stored in US format (2010-06-01).

In my PHP page where I’ll display the date, I simply want to convert this date into a UK format (01-06-2010).

Any help and advice appreciated!

Thanks,

Homer.

Answer 1

You didn’t specify and your example is ambiguous, but I’ll assume you’re talking about outputting in day-month-year format. You can use strtotime to parse a string date into a unix timestamp, and then give that timestamp to date along with the format that you’d like to output your date in:

date("d-m-Y", strtotime($date_from_mysql));

The manual page for date lists all the formatting options that you can give. In this case, d represents the day as a zero-padded number, m represents the month as a zero-padded number, and Y represents the year as a four digit number. Any characters that don’t have a specific meaning for date come across as-is.