Convert YYYY-MM-DD date to text

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Numerical Date To Text Date PHP

I'm trying to find a way to convert a date to a more "user-friendly" format.

For example, from 2011-01-05 to Jan 5th, 2011.

I'm sure it's something simple, I just can't seem to find it anywhere. Any ideas?

Have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2588998/numerical-date-to-text-date-php — D K, Sep 09 '11 at 00:54
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4003476/human-readable-date-using-php — JRL, Sep 09 '11 at 00:55
Might be worth checking out this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5919387/create-user-friendly-date-in-php — mal-wan, Sep 09 '11 at 00:55

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '11 at 01:06

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For the th add the English ordinal Suffix for the day of the month

date("M jS, Y", strtotime("2011-01-05"));

answered Sep 09 '11 at 01:06

Lawrence Cherone

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 01 '12 at 18:00

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Try this:

date("M j, Y", strtotime("2011-01-05"));

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answered Sep 09 '11 at 00:56

Ben

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I'm assuming you mean date() not data() – mal-wan Sep 09 '11 at 00:58
@mwan109 yes I did, I changed it fairly quickly but I guess you caught it first :) – Ben Sep 09 '11 at 01:08

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 09 '11 at 23:21

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You could use the DateTime class, and call the format function. Then just set up the format using the standard date() format string to output a textual data format.

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answered Sep 09 '11 at 00:56

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Convert YYYY-MM-DD date to text

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