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Formatting for display a date pulled from a database

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Jun 05.2005

I have dates stored in an MS-Access a database as data/time values.

I have found lots of material on how to format the current date for presentation, but I want to have the date from the database ($startdate) to show as “Jun-01” in one place and “June 1st, 2005” in another place.

Can anyone help me? Surely this isn’t unusual – the page I’m inutting this message on uses a formatted date from a database!

Thanks in advance,

Rob

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@ShrineDesignsJun 05.2005 — store dates as integers (the values returned from mktime(), strtotime(), etc.)

then use the date() function to format them as you want
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@scaiferwauthorJun 05.2005 — Thank you, I just came back to say I found it.

The line below gives me just what I need to work with.

[CODE]$ldate_start = date("D, j-M-Y", strtotime("$startdate"));[/CODE]

I just found this forum, what a great resource.

Cheers,

Rob
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