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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