How to display a date as iso 8601 format with PHP

Question

I\'m trying to display a datetime from my MySQL database as an iso 8601 formated string with PHP but it\'s coming out wrong.

17 Oct 2008 is coming out as: 1969-12-31

Answer 1

The second argument of date is a UNIX timestamp, not a database timestamp string.

You need to convert your database timestamp with strtotime.