Converting a timestamp to a string.

[Anon]

Is their any native functions in either PHP or MySQL that will convert a 14 digit timestamp into a format such as "Mar 05, 2002 1:34 pm"?

I have tried every single command related to date and I haven't been able to get it to work. It is possible that my syntax has been incorrect since I am fairly new to PHP.

For instance is there any way to read a variable into the "date()" or "strftime()" commands?

Any help at all would be apreciated.

[Anon]

You can probably use the strtotime() function

ie

$theTime = strtotime($yourstring);

then use date() on $theTime .. ie

echo date("r", $thetime);

HTH.

[Anon]

if your timestamp is coming from MySQL then you should use MySQL's DATE_FROMAT() function

[Anon]

Thank you so much, you guys are lifesavers. Using the date_format command when I called up the database solved all of my problems. Before that I was using a 30 line long function to convert my timestamps.

Again thank you...

-Hans