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phpmysqltimestamp
ian
ian

Reputation: 12355

displaying mysql timestamp correctly

Hey i'm trying to display a date/time from a timestamp field using:

echo $date = date( "D F j", $row['date'] );

However it returns: Wed December 3 When it should return today: Monday July 13

Timestamp from the DB row is: 2009-07-13 04:16:31

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 348

Answers (2)

Jeroen Bolle
Jeroen Bolle

Reputation: 1836

Also possible:

$date = date( "D F j", strtotime( $row['date'] ) );

But Greg's solution is better coding.

Upvotes: 1

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 321864

You should use

SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`date`) AS `date` FROM ...

This will give you the date in the correct format to pass in to PHP's date() function.

Edit:

SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`date`) AS `date` FROM songs WHERE date >= DATE_SUB( NOW( ) , INTERVAL 2 WEEK )

As a side note - it's best to avoid using NOW() in queries as it prevents them being cached - inject the date in you application instead.

Upvotes: 4

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