Question

In my mySQL database, I have a DATE value in the format “YYYY-MM-DD”. In my PHP web-page, I retrieve the value from the database and write it to the HTML output. However, I would like to change the formatting of that value.

Example:

"2012-02-01"

I would like to output:

"February 1, 2012"

Is there a built-in PHP-function which can achieve that, or do I have to write my own function for that?

Answer 1

Use date(),

date("F j, Y", strtotime("2012-02-01"));

Although it’s probably better to use mktime() instead of strtotime() so that it’s unambiguous,

date("F j, Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 2012));