Converting between date formats in PHP giving error

Question

database date format that i retrieve is

 $event_date='2013-01-20';

and i want to convert this format to like this Jan 1,2013

I have tried this

echo date('M d, Y',$event_date)
//but it is printing wrong value "Jan 01, 1970"

and giving error also: Notice (8): A non well formed numeric value encountered

if anyone can catch please help me to get correct value

@MarkBaker sir your comment may be according to title not according to question.... i have described well my question and my try... it's your choice you want to close it or not..you have rights you can do it to improve your power!!!!!!!!!!!! — Kuldeep Choudhary, Mar 04 '14 at 10:28
and which part of the accepted answer to the question I linked doesn't answer your own question? — Mark Baker, Mar 04 '14 at 10:29
@MarkBaker may be anser same but not question...i already did know my answer but i was just missing a method strtotime ... — Kuldeep Choudhary, Mar 04 '14 at 10:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:09

You will need to use strtotime() function to correctly format the date since date() function expects second parameter to be a timestamp

echo date('M d, Y',strtotime($event_date));

From documentation

The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if now is not supplied.

Live working sample here

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:10

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date expects second parameter to be a timestamp http://php.net/date

http://php.net/strtotime is the way to go.

date('M d, Y', strtotime($event_date))

answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:10

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:08

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You should do:

echo date('M d, Y',strtotime($event_date));

answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:08

Ramesh

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:08

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try this....

echo date('M d, Y',strtotime($event_date));

answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:08

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:08

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Do like below

<?php  $event_date='2013-01-20';
echo date('M d, Y',  strtotime($event_date));
?>

answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:08

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:14

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Use DateTime to convert the Dateformat

   <?php
    $event_date='2013-01-20';
    $date = new DateTime($event_date);
    echo $date->format('M d, Y');

answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:14

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:17

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try this :

$event_date='2013-01-20';

echo date('M d, Y',strtotime($event_date));

answered Mar 04 '14 at 10:17

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Converting between date formats in PHP giving error

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