Formatting a date

[tomharto]

I have a string containing a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD and i want to format it so its something like 21st March 2012, how would i do this?

[abduraooft]

PHP Code:

echo date("dS F Y", strtotime($date)); // where $date contains the date in YYYY-MM-DD format 


Edit: sorry, didn't notice the forum selected

[Philip M]

Here you are (suggest you ignore the unhelpful posts - webdev1958/bullant cannot resist making sneering comments, rather than offering any help):-

<script type = "text/javascript">

var mths = ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'];

var str = "2012-03-21";  // the date you specified YYYY-MM-DD
var sp = str.split("-");
var yr = sp[0];
var mth = Number(sp[1])-1;  // months in javascript are 0-11
var mthname = mths[mth];
var day = Number(sp[2]);
day = day + ["th","st","nd","rd"][!(day%10>3||Math.floor(day%100/10)==1)*day%10]; 
var finaldate =  day + " " + mthname + " " + yr;
alert (finaldate);

</script>

Obviously one having captured the component parts of the date you can manipulate their order to display them in any format you wish. You could also easily add the name of the weekday if you wished.


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[tomharto]

Originally Posted by Philip M

Here you are (suggest you ignore the unhelpful posts):-

<script type = "text/javascript">

var mths = ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'];

var str = "2012-03-21";  // the date you specified
var sp = str.split("-");
var yr = sp[0];
var mth = Number(sp[1])-1;  // months in javascript are 0-11
var mthname = mths[mth];
var day = Number(sp[2]);
day = day + ["th","st","nd","rd"][!(day%10>3||Math.floor(day%100/10)==1)*day%10]; 
var finaldate =  day + " " + mthname + " " + yr;
alert (finaldate);

</script>

Obviously one having captured the component parts of the date you can manuipulate their order to display them in any format you wish. You could also easily add the name of the weekday if you wished.


"A good reputation can take years to aquire, a bad one takes a few seconds"

Thank you, ill take a look at that soon as i get home

EDIT: Tested it works like a charm thanks a lot