SELECT DATE_FORMAT('open', '%m-%d-%Y') FROM your_table_name; -- itoctopus - http://www.itoctopus.com ""Mike Ryan"" <miker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:42.A3.45184.F9F64564@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >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