* Robert Sossomon <robert_sossomon@xxxxxxxx>: > I have a date in format YY-MM-DD in a MySQL table. I need to pull it back to > display it in either format: MM-DD-YY or Month Day, Year format. > > I can't figure out how to write the query to do it, and am not sure > how to make PHP just parse the one given and dump it back out in the > way I need it. Any suggestions? http://php.net/strtotime Specifically, try the following: // $date is the date as pulled from the MySQL table $convertedDate = date("m-d-y", strtotime($date)); -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | mailto:matthew@xxxxxxxxxx Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association | http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php