Change display format of date and time field in MySQL PHP

Question

My select statement in PHP is

  \"select * from table\";

I use the following PHP statement to display date & time of MySQL field.

Answer 1

You can do the formatting directly in the database as Frank Heikens shows in his answer, or you can do it in PHP. Convert the mySQL date value to a UNIX timestamp using

$timestamp = strtotime($row["mdate"]);

then you can use all options of date() to format it, for example:

echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $timestamp); // returns 09-03-2010 16:59:18

both approaches are equally valid; I personally like to modify the value in PHP.