Mysql strip time component from datetime

Question

I need to do a date comparison in Mysql without taking into account the time component i.e. i need to convert \'2008-11-05 14:30:00\' to \'2008-11-05\'

Currently i a

Answer 1

Just a simple way of doing it date("d F Y",strtotime($row['date'])) where $row['date'] comes from your query