If I already have a variable:
$mydate = "2004-01-19";
is there a PHP way to display "January" from this? Maybe some kind of mktime() thing that I can't find?
The MySQL getdate() is great for queries ...
$month = $mydate['month'];
... but I don't want to have to drop this into a db just to retrieve the right format. And that only works off of timestamp and not date.
If any one knows of a way to do this, I'd appreciate your help.
Thanks.
I've never checked to see if the mktime() can do it... what I have done in the past is the following:
Make an array with the months in it, but leave the first key blank, so...
$months = array('', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April');
etc
Then you can strip off the two characters for the month from your timestamp using substr() and write that as a new variable (let's say $the_month).
Then just echo your date out and echo the month by doing:
echo $months[$the_month];
mktime() might be a little quicker in processing if it can in fact do it... but the above method has worked fine for me in the past.
$mydate = strtotime("2004-01-19");
$monthname = strftime('%B', $mydate);
Look at http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.strftime.php
Thanks all. Both methods work.
I saw the strtotime() page in the manual, but did not process it. I think I got hung up on it being timestamp. (which it doesn't have to be).
Appreciate your time!
Also [man]date[/man]. Dunno why there is both that and strftime...
