How to only display date, not time, in a table using PHP - php

Question

This is what my table currently looks like:
This is the corresponding PHP code:
<?php
//include 'database.php';
$pdo2 = Database::connect();
$sql2 = "SELECT id,
full_name,
owner_name awardee,
owner awardee_email,
(select concat(user_name,' ',user_last_name) from users where email = who_created) awarder,
creation_time
FROM awards, award_types
where who_created = ? and awards_type=type_id";
$q2 = $pdo->prepare($sql2);
$q2->execute(array($_COOKIE["email"]));
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));
foreach ($q2 as $row) {
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'. $row['id'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['full_name'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['awardee'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['awardee_email'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['awarder'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['creation_time'] . '</td>';
echo '<td><a class="btn" href="DeleteAward.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Delete Award</a></td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
Database::disconnect();
?>
I want to only display the date, not time, under the "Date" column. I read from other posts that I need to use some sort of date(creation_time) or DATE_FORMAT(creation_time) command, but I tried both and they just make my "Date" column blank.
I suspect that I'll need to change the echo '<td>'. $row['creation_time'] . '</td>'; line as well, but I was not able to find any guidelines on how to do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

There's two ways to go about it:
The MySQL way:
SELECT DATE(creation_time) AS creation_time
Or the PHP way:
$creation_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($row['creation_time']));
Edit Here's the exact code for each way:
Mysql:
$sql2 = "SELECT id,
full_name,
owner_name awardee,
owner awardee_email,
(select concat(user_name,' ',user_last_name) from users where email = who_created) awarder,
DATE(creation_time) AS creation_time
FROM awards, award_types
where who_created = ? and awards_type=type_id";
And PHP version:
foreach ($q2 as $row) {
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'. $row['id'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['full_name'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['awardee'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['awardee_email'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>'. $row['awarder'] . '</td>';
$creation_time = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($row['creation_time']));
echo '<td>'. $creation_time . '</td>';
echo '<td><a class="btn" href="DeleteAward.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Delete Award</a></td>';
echo '</tr>';
}