Numeric date to PHP text date

Question

Hey, I'm just wondering how to convert a numeric date to text format in PHP

Change Example

04/06/2010 to say April 6, 2010

Is there any function already?

Answer 1

Check out these PHP functions that are used together, I think you will get what you are looking for:

• strtotime
• date

i.e:.

$mydate = strtotime('06.04.2010'); echo date('F jS Y', $mydate); 

Answer 2

Please note that strtotime () can be difficult with dates in a format other than the United States at different times (in particular, dates of the DD / MM / YYYY formats, although this is good with YYYY-MM-DD); if you are using PHP 5.3, you will almost certainly get better results using something like the DateTime class , which allows you to specify which format the date is in.