Formating a date.

Client Joined: Oct 07, 2003 Posts: 735 Location: Ohio

This is stored in the db as varchar and is ten digits. I assume this is a timestamp and I'm trying to extract it and format for display.

The only thing I've gotten to display is Dec 30, 1969.

I can't figure this out and I've been researching it for an hour.

Code:

$sql = $db->sql_query("SELECT game_id, winner, loser, date, winnerscores, loserscores FROM " . $prefix . "_tc_playedgames tcp 


   JOIN " . $prefix . "_tc_ladders tcl 


   WHERE tcp.ladder_id = tcl.sid 


   AND tcl.active = '1'");


   while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($sql) ) {





         $game_id = $row['game_id'];


         $winner = $row['winner'];


         $loser = $row['loser'];


         $date = $row['date'];


         list($Year,$Month,$Day) = split('-',$date);


         $matchdate = date("M j, Y",mktime(12,0,0,$Month,$Day,$Year));


         $winnerscores = $row['winnerscores'];


         $loserscores = $row['loserscores'];

Ideally I need to display something like Dec 11, 2006 9:28AM

registered · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:14 pm

May want to try the strtotime function to convert the date into a Unix timestamp
www.php.net/strtotime

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:03 pm

Nope.

Now it says -1 for all the dates.

Code:

$sql = $db->sql_query("SELECT game_id, winner, loser, date, winnerscores, loserscores FROM " . $prefix . "_tc_playedgames tcp 


   JOIN " . $prefix . "_tc_ladders tcl 


   WHERE tcp.ladder_id = tcl.sid 


   AND tcl.active = '1'");


   while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($sql) ) {





         $game_id = $row['game_id'];


         $winner = $row['winner'];


         $loser = $row['loser'];


         $date = $row['date'];   


         $matchdate = strtotime('F j, Y, g:i a',$date); 


         $winnerscores = $row['winnerscores'];


         $loserscores = $row['loserscores'];      


                   


      


    echo"<tr>"   


   . "<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#666666\"><font color=\"#000000\">$matchdate</td>"

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:41 am

what does the field 'date' contain?
Without knowing what it has you're screwed

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:03 am

varchar (40)

The field has this as a value

1165318740

registered · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:38 am

If that is a unix timestamp, then its about 2006'ish. Does that sound right?

Use the date() function on it and see.
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

$prettyDate = date('F j, Y, g:i a', $date);

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:05 pm

That worked. Thanks