Posted by Bosconian on 02/05/06 21:59

"Chuck Anderson" <websiteaddress@seemy.sig> wrote in message
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> Bosconian wrote:
>
> >I must be having a brain freeze because I can't figure out how to display
> >dates older than 1970.
> >
> >I have birth dates stored in MySQL as "date" data types (exp.
1955-04-06).
> >I'd like to display as "April 4, 1955".
> >
> >I've tried using date("F j, Y"), but only get "December 31, 1969".
> >
> >I'm using PHP 4.3.8. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> $months = array('', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May',
> 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');
>
> Separate year, month and day with strtok or explode and format it
yourself.
>

Yup, that's exactly what I did. I made the months array global because it's
used elsewhere.

// custom output function for displaying pre-1970 dates; expects
"yyyy-mm-dd" date format
// returns full textual month, numeric day (w/o leading zeros) and numeric
4-digit year
function format_date($date) {
global $months;
return $months[intval(substr($date, 5, 2))] . ' ' . intval(substr($date,
8, 2)) . ', ' . substr($date, 0, 4);
}

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