PHP - What's The Quickest Most Efficient Way To Change Date Format??

I need to change the date format to DD-MM-YYYY. Please help.

$SomeVar = $_POST['finco'];
$query = "SELECT * FROM  news_home WHERE code = '".$SomeVar."' ORDER BY timestamp DESC";
$results = mysql_query($query);

$returnS="";
while($line = mysql_fetch_array($results))
{
$returnS.= $line["subject"].",,".$line["timestamp"].",,".$line["News"].",,".$line["links"].",,,";
}
echo $returnS;
mysql_close($link);
?>

Hi i've been trying to change the format of the date which comes from the database row [ news-date ]
this what i tried but di not work help please

$query = "SELECT * FROM news, date_format [news_date](date,'%M %d, %Y') AS news_date
 "; 
$result = mysql_query($query); 

// see if any rows were returned 
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) { 
 // yes so print them one after another 
  echo "<table cellpadding=10 border=1>"; 

  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))  {
  
   
  

     echo "<tr>"; 
     echo "<td>".$row["news_id"]."</td>"; 
     echo "<td>".$row["subject"]."</td>"; 
     echo "<td>" .$row['news_date']. "</td>";
 
     echo "<td>".$row["news_artical"]."</td>";
 echo "<td><a href=delete2.php?id=".$row["id"].">Delete</a></td>"; 
 echo "<td><a href=modifyform.php?id=".$row["id"].">Modify</a></td>";
 echo "<td><a href=add.php?id=".$row["id"].">Add Row</a></td>";
     echo "</tr>"; 
   } //End While
   echo "</table>"; 
} //End if rows 

   echo "<p> <strong>{news.SUBJECT} </strong></p>"; 



?> 

Hi,

I am importing data from a csv file into mysql.

Everything works fine except that the 'order_date' column in CSV is in the following format mm/dd/yy.

Upon import I would like for that format to be changed to yyyy-mm-dd

I am not sure how to modify the following code to be able to do so.

Any help would be appreciated.




<?
include "connect.php";

if(isset($_POST['submit']))

   {

     $filename=$_POST['filename'];

     $handle = fopen("$filename", "r");

     while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)

     {


$date = date("Y-m-d");


$import="INSERT into table
(order_id,
order_status,
order_date,
todays_date)
values
('$data[0]',
'$data[1]',
'$data[2]',
'$date')";
       mysql_query($import) or die(mysql_error());

     }

     fclose($handle);

     print "Import done";

 

   }

   else

   {

 

      print "<form action='importnew.php' method='post'>";

      print "Type file name to import:<br>";

      print "<input type='text' name='filename' size='20'><br>";

      print "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit'></form>";

   }
?> 

I have tried a large number of "solutions" to  this but everytime I use them I see 0000-00-00 in my date field instead of  the date even though I echoed and can see that the date looks correct.

Here's where I'm at:
I have a drop down for the month (1-12) and date fields (1-31) as well as a text input field for the year.  Using the POST array, I  have combined them into the xxxx-xx-xx format that I am using in my field as a date field in mysql. 

<code>
$date_value =$_POST['year'].'-'.$_POST['month'].'-'.$_POST['day'];
echo $date_value;
</code>

This outputs 2012-5-7 in my test echo but 0000-00-00 in the database.

I have tried unsuccessfully to use in a numberof suggested versions of:
strtotime()
mktime

Any help would be extremely appreciated.
I am aware that I need to validate this data and insure  that it is a valid date. That I'm okay with. I would like some help on getting it into the database.

Hi there,

I have a string '12/04/1990', that's in the format dd/mm/yyyy.

I'm attempting to convert that string to a Date, and then insert that date into a MySQL DATE field.

The problem is, every time I try to do so, I keep getting values like this in the database: 1970-01-01.


Any ideas?


Much appreciated.