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

ok, I was wrestling with this for a week (longer but i took a break from it).

I have two specific fields in tables

creationDate > timestamp > current_timestamp
editDate > timestamp > current_timestamp

they were pulling out either dec 31 1969, or just nothing... annoying... very annoying

in mysql query i did:

            unix_timestamp(creationDate) AS creationDate
            unix_timestamp(editDate) AS editDate

in php convert i did:

    $timestamp = $result_ar['creationDate'];
    $creationDate = date("Y-M-d (g:i:s a)", $timestamp)
            echo($creationDate);

    $editstamp = $result_ar['editDate'];
    $editDate = date("Y-M-d (g:i:s a)", $editstamp)
            echo($editDate);

this solved my problem for me returning

            2010-Jun-28 (5:33:39 pm)
            2010-Jun-28 (12:09:46 pm)

respectively.

I hope this helps someone out..