So I have a field in my database called 'DateTime' and the following lines of code:
echo "Date/Time: ";
echo $row['DateTime'];
How do I format it so that instead of being like this:'2013-02-07 22:14:56', it will be like this: '07/02/13 - 22:14'
Thanks.
Alternatively you could use:
DateTime::createFromFormat('Y/m/d H:i:s',$row['DateTime']); this will give you a datetime object, which are quite nice to work with.
Another alternative would be to have MySQL format the DATETIME value as a string in the desired format, using the DATE_FORMAT function.
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(`DateTime`,'%d/%m/%y - %H:%i') AS `DateTime`
...
No change required to your PHP code except for the SQL text sent to the database server.
This approach can very efficient, and reduce the amount of code you need, if all you are doing with this string is displaying it. If you are doing any sort of manipulation on this value, then casting the string value returned from MySQL resultset into a datetime object is probably a better way to go.
A demonstration of the DATE_FORMAT function:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2013-02-07 22:14:56','%d/%m/%y - %H:%i') AS `DateTime`
DateTime
----------------
07/02/13 - 22:14
how to output date into Year textbox Month textbox Day textbox
$book_date = $myrow["Publication_Day"];
$book_year = Date("Y", strtotime($book_date));
$timestamp contains ur date & time in any format.....................
date('Y/m/d - H:i',strtotime($timeStamp));
echo date('d/m/y H:i', strtotime($row['DateTime']));
See date and strtotime for more detail on the functions from the docs
$mytime = strtotime('2013-06-07 22:14:56');
$newDate = date('m/d/y - G:i', $mytime);
echo $newDate;
Here's an alternative using DateTime. If you're working with timezones this code can be easily modified to handle that.
$datetime = new DateTime('2013-02-07 22:14:56');
echo $datetime->format('d/m/y H:i');
See it in action
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I am storing dates in my database like this: 2014-09-08. I want to retrieve them to my php script inverted: 08-09-2014. They are DATE.
How can I do this in my query? Or even in php if not possible.
Using MySQL, you can use DATE_FORMAT():
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%d-%m-%Y');
Using PHP, you can do this way:
echo date("d-m-Y", strtotime($row["date"]));
Fetch the date from the database and use date() function to format date. DEMO The demo outputs 08-09-2014.
<?php
$date = $row["date"]; //if value of date is 2014-09-08
echo date("d-m-Y", strtotime($date)); //outputs 08-09-2014
?>
I have something in my database that shows the time when the users who signed up on my recorded .. When the person makes the user saves the script (time ();) currently in the database under the variable name "REGTIM".
If I use echo to print it out, I get for example:
1375202508
How can I make this a date if it is possible? or for example as mentioned below.
for example: 08/06/2013 2:11
You can use date() function with timestamp mention in the second argument,
date ( string $format [, int $timestamp = time() ] )
or in your case:
date('m/d/Y H:m', 1375202508);
you can read more on http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
You could have got the answer to that with a little bit of searching. But here you go:
echo date('m/d/Y h:m', 1375202508); // 07/30/2013 10:07 -- 12-hour format
echo date('m/d/Y H:m', 1375202508); // 07/30/2013 22:07 -- 24-hour format
See the documentation for more options: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
that's probably just a unix timestamp, so use FROM_UNIXTIME() and DATE_FORMAT() to do the conversion/formatting inside your query, or use date() in PHP to work with the timestamp directly.
e.g.
echo date('d/m/Y h:m', $timestamp)
or
SELECT DATE_FORMAT('%d/%m/%y %h:%m', FROM_UNIXTIME(REGTIM))
How to get current date in codeigniter in YY-mm-dd format. I wants to get current date in YY-mm-dd frmat and put this value into input text box
You can use the PHP date function.
date('Y-m-d');
Up to my knowledge, there is no separate date function in codeigniter.
EDIT :
But if you want date in this format 13-04-05 [ yy-mm-dd ], Try this
date('y-m-d');
For more date formats, check this link PHP Date Formats
Try to use this is a generic format of DateTime
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
use php date function
echo date("Y-m-d");
will give you the result
What about:
$date = new \Datetime('now');
var_dump($date);
if you want the full date:
echo date('Y-m-d');
depends your date structure.
echo date('d-m-Y');
if you want year only, then echo date('Y'); is enough
Use php date() function, like this
echo Date('Y/m/d');
it give you the desired result!
I am trying to format a datetime variable with the following code:
$passed_time = $stu_quiz->c_date_time;
$passed_time_string = date_format($passed_time, 'M-d-Y');
For some reason, if I print $passed_time_string, the output is blank, but if I print out $passed_time, I get the date (in the format 2011-06-15 21:43:09).
Why is the date_format method not working?
The date_format function expects a "DateTime" object that is created using date_create.
Example:
$passed_time = date_create($stu_quiz->c_date_time);
$passed_time_string = date_format($passed_time, 'M-d-Y');
You are looking for just date()
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
If you don't have PHP 5.3 and cannot use the DateTime class, try this:
$passed_time_string = date("M-d-Y", strtotime($passed_time));
First it converts your original MySQL time to a unix timestamp, then formats it as M-d-Y
I have in a MySQL table a DATE column that represents the date in this format: YYYY-MM-DD.
I wanto to retrieve the date from the database using PHP but display it like this: DD Month, YYYY.
From '2009-04-13' to '13 April, 2009' for example.
Witch is the best way to do it?? ( I know how to get the date from the DB. I only need to know how to convert it)
I also need to display the month names in Spanish. There is a way to do it without translating each month using strplc or something like that??
I'm new to programming, please be detailed.
Thanks!!!
Refer to DATE_FORMAT() function in MySQL. I guess that's the best way for you to do it.
Also, you can make this:
Fetch your date from DB
Use strtotime in PHP, to convert to unix time
Then format the time using date.
By using date() you'll be able to get months names in Spanish when you set your locale in PHP with setlocale.
You could also skip the strtotime() part by using UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date) in your MySql select. But remember that this is a MySQL specific function and may not be be portable in the future.
Execute following MySQL queries:
SET lc_time_names = 'es_ES';
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(t.date,'%e de %M, %Y') FROM your_table t ...
With MySQLi it'll be:
$mysqli->query("SET lc_time_names = 'es_ES'");
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT DATE_FORMAT(t.date,'%e de %M, %Y') FROM your_table t ...where id = ?");
...
Another option not yet mentioned:
SQL:
SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date) FROM table
PHP:
print date('your format', $timestamp_from_the_db);
Personally, I like to use integer data types in MySQL for date storage in the UNIX timestamp format. I leave all the processing of that integer up to PHP. Keeping tables and queries as simple as possible has always served me well. Predominantly, in the code I write, dates have some sort of calculation done to them. This is all done on the PHP side and always in the UNIX timestamp format. Storing or retrieving the dates in anything other than the UNIX timestamp format just means another step for errors to creep in and makes the query less modular. How a date is formatted is best left up until the last minute before it's displayed. It's just my opinion, but unless there are extreme circumstances where you can't process the DB value after extraction, a date shouldn't be formatted SQL-side.
A simplified example:
<?php
$date = now();
$dueDate = $date + 60*60*24*7; // One week from now
$sqlInsert = "INSERT INTO reports SET `dueDate` = $date";
$resInsert = mysql_query( $sqlInsert );
$sqlSelect = "SELECT `dueDate` FROM reports";
$resSelect = mysql_query( $sqlSelect );
$rowSelect = mysql_fetch_array( $resSelect );
$DB_dueDate = $rowSelect['dueDate'];
$daysUntilDue = ( $DB_dueDate - now() ) / 60*60*24;
$formattedDueDate = date( "j F, Y", $DB_dueDate );
?>
The report is due on <?=$formattedDueDate?>. That is <?=$daysUntilDue?> from now.
Simplest way is to use the strtotime() function to normalize the input to UNIX timestamp.
Then use the date() function to output the date in any format you wish. Note that you need to pass the UNIX timestamp as the second argument to date().
This will help you to convert as you want:
$dob ='2009-04-13';
echo date('d M Y', strtotime($dob));
$origDate = "2018-04-20";
$newDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($origDate));
echo $newDate;