How to: Date Format
If you're gonna display this date format in your page, it will look so elementary: 2010-10-20. So we got to have a format for this one.
Step 1: Prepare your database configuration file.
Step 2: Create and put this code inside your index.php file.
<?php
include 'config_open_db.php';
// to format the date, we used the date_format function
// we also label the column as formatted_date 'coz if not, we will have to access the data
// in this way: date_format(date_created,'%M %d, %Y')
$sql = "select title, date_format(date_created,'%M %d, %Y') as formatted_date from articles";
$rs = mysql_query( $sql ) or die( 'Database Error: ' . mysql_error());
while( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $rs ) ){
extract( $row );
echo "<h4>$title</h4>";
echo "Created on " . $formatted_date. "< hr />";
}
?>
you should have something like this:
Step 3: If you also want to display the time just change %M %d, %Y to %M %d, %Y %r. You should have something like this.
For more date format patter strings, look here.
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