Question

I’m trying to display mysql stored unix timestamp values on my browser (and also save them to a CSV file). The values are stored as int (11). The problem is that when I display them, I see ‘d’, ‘P’, ‘j’, ‘M’ and other characters that are used for formatting dates instead of the actual timestamp. What’s going wrong ?

<?php

/* MySQL connection and database connection code */
mysql_query ("SELECT emailaddress, subscribedate FROM email_list_subscribers WHERE subscriberid = '$sid'");

$email_result= mysql_query ("SELECT emailaddress, subscribedate FROM  email_list_subscribers WHERE subscriberid = '$sid'");
if (mysql_num_rows ($email_result) == 0) {
  $email = '';
  $subscribedate = '';
} else {
  $email = mysql_fetch_assoc ($email_result);
  $email =  $email['emailaddress'];
  $subscribedate = (string) ( $email['subscribedate']);
  echo $sid . " : " . $subscribedate . "<br/>";
}

?>

Answer 1

You have to convert the timestamp value to a datetime in order to show the formated info:

    $timestamp = '1348617600';

    $datetime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $timestamp);

    echo $datetime;

also you can use:

echo strtotime($timestamp);

Be careful, you have to take into account the timezone