Question

Is there a way to make my mysql and php server automatically display dates in UK format.

At the moment I run a function to convert them.

the way the data is stored in the database 2012/06/20 the way i want the server to store it 20/06/2012

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//SQL_data comes from the table

echo $sql_date; // 2012/06/20

then i use this to swap the dates around.

function fixdate($in_date) {
    $split_data = explode('-', $in_date);
    if(count($split_data) == 3) {
        $year = $split_data[2]; $month = $split_data[1]; $day = $split_data[0];
        return "$year-$month-$day";
     } else {
        return FALSE;
     }
}

then i display the date.

then i use the function again to store it in the database because it does not accept any other format.

My question is: is there a way that I can just set the default mysql date formate to UK standers.

hope i have explained it better this time.

Answer 1

In PHP, you can use the date() and strtotime() functions to convert date to whatever format you want. E.g. for DD-MM-YYYY

date('d-m-Y', strtotime($date_from_db))