Formatting an SQL timestamp with PHP

Question

I have a mySQL database with a timestamp field. It currently only has one entry while I\'m testing, it is

2010-02-20 13:14:09

I am pulling

Answer 1

For starters, the php date() function is expecting seconds as the second variable. So that accounts for why your date is displaying wrong. Check this source on that issue.

Which then provides us the answer to the problem, to get PHP to format the date from a SQL timestamp correctly, we just change the query a tad...

SELECT author, `when`

Change it to...

SELECT author, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`when`)

Then use the PHP date function, with the variable that is storing the result of that above SQL query.