Re: format date field

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Leave the date as is, its a MySQL thing. To format it on your page, use the date function:

$formattedDate = date("m-d-Y",strtotime($row["open"]));

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

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On May 23, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Mike Ryan wrote:

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;

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