How do I Cast a string as a timestamp?

Jon

This HAS to be the most simple question but I can't see it

$dstring is "20021025" from

$darray[$idx++] = substr($record[0],0,8)

where $record is the return from mysql_query and element [0] is a Date.

Why, when I:

echo date("l, jS F Y", $darray[$idx])

do I get:

Thursday, 20th August 1970

and not Friday, 25th October 2002 ?

Do I need to cast the string - and if so, how?

Jon

phew< Sorted.

mktime......mktime....mktime (just drilling it in :-) )

michael

I think I used string to time for Epic dates.

You choose.

You're doing IDX? Risco/Fidelity?

For which board?

Jon

Hi Michael and thanks for the reply.

I tried strtotime but it didn't work. mktime did tho' and problem solved. I wanted to gather the four most recent dates in a table and then use those dates in a where clause to sekect records from the same table - but I also needed to print a fancy date too.

Not sure about your reference to IDX. The $idx is merely a for-loop iNdEx abbreviated - sorry.

barand

If I run

	$d = "20021027";
	$dstr = date("d M Y",strtotime($d));
	echo "Date is $dstr";

I get

Date is 27 Oct 2002

Jon

Thanks for your reply Barand.

Job is done. looks like I could have used strtotime OR mktime to do it. mktime was the first one that actually worked and I'm a great believer in 'if it aint broke - don't fix it'.

But if anyone now wants to tell me strtostime is quicker than mktime......

Cheers again.