Turning time() into date()

[pinehead18]

how do i take a time stamp like 1092791237 and make it look like a real date?

Thank you
Anthony

[LordShryku]

date($your_format, $timestamp);

Though, if you're doing it for the current time, it's not really neccesary.

[pinehead18]

how do i choose $my_format? or where do i find out what my optinos are? or how do i set it?

[LordShryku]

The format options are in the manual...

[pinehead18]

i'm getting parse error when i use this following code.
$date_format = "l, M, d";
$new_date = ($date_format, $date);

any ideas?

[LordShryku]

Change
$new_date = ($date_format, $date);
to
$new_date = date($date_format, $date);

[TheDefender]

pinehead, you can also just set the formatting in the function directly instead of defining a variable for it...

$new_date = date("l, M, d", $date);