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Jan 24.2012

I just can’t grasp generating dates in PHP.

Here’s all I want to do:

Grab a date from the database in this format: 2012-01-23

And turn it into this: January 23, 2012

I know the date format is F j, Y but I don’t know how to convert it. Anyone out there that can help? ?

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@OctoberWindJan 24.2012 — [code=php]echo date("F j, Y", strtotime("2012-01-23"));[/code]

Use strtotime() to convert the date string into a UNIX timestamp, which you can then parse into the "F j, Y" format with the PHP date() function.
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@ericatekkaJan 24.2012 — Or do it from SQL on-the-fly?

MySQL - [CODE]SELECT *,DATE_FORMAT(DATECOLUMN,'%M %d, %Y') FROM DB_NAME[/CODE]
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