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Change date format (in DB or output) to dd/mm/yyyy – PHP MySQL
PHP – Convert to date format dd/mm/yyyy

mysql saves my date and times like this…

 2011-08-31 08:48:40

And when I echo them from the database this is how they appear, how can I get them to a universal format like m/d/y…

Or does it not matter if the mysql row is not a DATE_TIME and just VARCHAR and insert it into the database how I want it??

Thanks…

Answer 1

Do it in PHP:

date("m/d/Y", strtotime('2011-08-31 08:48:40'));

Or do it in MySQL:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2011-08-31 08:48:40','%m/%d/%Y')

Of course you won’t use hardcoded values in your code. You’ll use the column name for MySQL or the retrieved column value, that’s probably an element in an array, in PHP.