I am reading in a date field from a mysql database the field on the screen shows up as 2007-05-01 on the screen I would like the field to show 05-01-2007 currently I am issueing the following command print $row['open']; how can I format this field??? while I am at it how can I accept the date field as 05-01-2007; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php