[CLUE-Tech] PHP or MySQL date handling problem

[Lynn Danielson]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Or maybe rant ;-)
> 
> I've run into a problem with PHP or MySQL (or both) with the handling of
> dates. The problem is that neither of them provides a generalized
> date/time parser that accepts a format string. <snip>
> PHP, likewise, provides no similar function. The strtotime function works
> with a variety of input strings, but again doesn't allow a user-supplied
> format string.

PHP's date() function allows you to format a Unix integer timestamp into
a string of your choice.  It's very flexible and has met all of my needs.
You can use time(), strtotime() or mktime() functions to feed it timestamps.

Hope this helps,

Lynn