date, time string

vinsim

I am trying to change the following so that I get 'day, month and year' as opposed to 'month, day and year' which the following shows. How do I change it please?

<?
function get_short_date($time1)
{ global $months_short;
$months=$months_short;
$d=getdate($time1);
$d2=$d['mon'];

$date_string=$months[$d2-1]." ".$d['mday'];
return $date_string;
}

function get_date_f($date1)
{
global $months_short, $weekdays;

$months1=array('january', 'february', 'march', 'april', 'may', 'june',

'july', 'august', 'september', 'october', 'november','december');

$months=$months_short;
$dt_mss=split('-',$date1);
$d2=$dt_mss[1];

$dtstr=$dt_mss[2]." ".$months1[$d2-1]." ".$dt_mss[0];
$evnttime=strtotime($dtstr)+1000;
$evntd=getdate($evnttime);
$evntd2=$evntd['wday'];

$evntwkd=$weekdays[$evntd2];

$date_string=$months[$d2-1]." ".$dt_mss[2]." ($evntwkd)";
return $date_string;
}

chasiv

function get_short_date($time1)

$date_string=$months[$d2-1]." ".$d['mday'];

Just reverse this to:
$date_string= $d['mday'] . " " . $months[$d2-1];

and you'll have the day of the month first...

function get_date_f($date1)
$date_string=$months[$d2-1]." ".$dt_mss[2]." ($evntwkd)";
becomes
$date_string = $dt_mss[2] . " " . $months[$d2-1]....

When you split('-', $date1), I'm assuming it was year-mon-day to start.. thus making $dt_mss[0] = year, $dt_mss[1] = mon, $dt_mss[2] = day as it normal protocol to store dates as yyyy-mm-dd.

vinsim

Thanks for inf.

NogDog

Both of you need to learn to use the forum's PHP bbcode tag to make your code samples more legible.

And if this has solved your problem, Vinsim, please use the "Thread tools" link at the top of this thread to mark it as "resolved".

vinsim

NogDog wrote:
Both of you need to learn to use the forum's PHP bbcode tag to make your code samples more legible.

And if this has solved your problem, Vinsim, please use the "Thread tools" link at the top of this thread to mark it as "resolved".

As I am new to PHP, I copied the relevant part of the script and posted it here assuming it would help. I've tried the above suggestion and it hasn't worked so possible this is because I've missed something out.

NogDog

Not a big deal (we're not going to ban you for not using it 🙂 ), you just need to surround any PHP code samples with [ PHP]code text here[/PHP ] (without the spaces I used here within the square brackets). Or if using the advanced editor, select the code and then click on the 'php' icon (just to the right of the <> icon).

See this page for info on all the BBcode tags available on this forum.

And welcome to PHPBuilder. 🙂

vinsim

I'm still unable to change the date format after trying the suggested way. I've checked the code and it seems OK.

Is there anywhere else I should be looking?

NogDog

[man]date/man
[man]strtotime/man
[man]mktime/man

bradgrafelman

Where is the date coming from? A database?

vinsim

Yes it is. I have enclose the relevant file in zip form which might help.

vinsim

vinsim wrote:
Yes it is. I can enclose the relevant file is zip form which might help but I can't upload here for some reason.

Now enclosed.