php date manupliations

Pablo

anyone know of a nice way to

i have a string which is in the format : d-m-Y H:i
typical example : 01-07-2002 19:49

can i easily change this into simple F s format to look like July 07 instead ? ?

Pablo

i could try the explode feature except that they have different seperators .

The Corinthian

Try this function.

Pablo

thanks mate

work so far
[php]
<?
$date_eg = '01-07-2002 19:49';
echo "$date_eg Date in the format received <BR>\n";
echo strtotime ("$date_eg"), " php version of date <BR>\n";

$st_val = strtotime ("$date_eg");
echo "$date_eg date changed back to version that is readable \n<BR>";

$today = date("M j");
echo "$today version that i'd like to see";

?>
[/php]
output

01-07-2002 19:49 Date in the format received 
1166903340 php version of date 
01-07-2002 19:49 date changed back to version that is readable 
Jul 2 version that i'd like to see

any way that i can explode a string into the different pieces ? like i will always want the 4th and 5th digit and the 1st and 2nd digit and discard the rest ? ?

dahamsta

any way that i can explode a string into the different pieces ? like i will always want the 4th and 5th digit and the 1st and 2nd digit and discard the rest ? ?

You can't explode() without a string to split on, but you can use the string functions to get what you need. Alternatively, you can access characters in a string by array elements, for example:

[php]<?php

$string = 'string';
$ting = $string[1] . $string[3] . $string[4] . $string[5];

?>[/php]adam

Pablo

cool thanks adam ... know how to do it now ...
[php]$br_date = $date_eg[3] . $date_eg[4] . $date_eg[0] . $date_eg[1];
echo "<BR><BR>$br_date";
[/php]
and add some if's and else if's to get the month all nice .

adios,
p.