Hello: I am passing a date from

[PeterMac]

Hello:

I am passing a date from a database to the date function and it returns the wrong month... any ideas why?

saledate is currently: 2003-06-21

and date("F", $row["saledate"])

returns Wednesday, but June 21st is a Saturday... can't figure it out... any help appreciated...

Peter

 

[sleipnir214]

I'm sorry, but your question has confused me.

According to

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php,

date ("F", strtotime('2003-06-21');

should return "June", not "Wednesday".


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[PeterMac]

You are correct in that it should return a month... I was playing with the other letter options... and confused myself !!! It was returning December, not June (or Wednesday)... but I did not use the strtotime() function, so I will try that out and let you know what I come up with... thanks for the response anyway...

Peter

 

[sleipnir214]

date() requires that the second parameter be an integer, specifically the Unix Epoch time tick.

strtotime() is useful getting the integer out of the string, but be aware that if the date string passed in is all numeric, "YYYY-MM-DD" is the only format it will parse correctly.

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