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Someone had suggest this:<br />
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echo date('m/d', $rows['date']);<br />
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But it prints out all 12/31 for all records regardless of the actual date being pulled from the db...
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Someone had suggest this:

echo date('m/d', $rows['date']);

But it prints out all 12/31 for all records regardless of the actual date being pulled from the db...

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Try this. &nbsp;<a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php" rel="ugc">http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php</a><br />

<pre><code id="code-8170120">$nudate = explode(&quot;-&quot;, $rows['date']);
echo $nudate[1].&quot;/&quot;.$nudate[2];</code></pre>
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Try this.  http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php [http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php]


$nudate = explode("-", $rows['date']);
echo $nudate[1]."/".$nudate[2];

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Right now, I place a date on my page using the echo $rows['date']; variable from a query. It works fine, but it is printed out as:<br />
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2011-09-10<br />
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How do I use php to show the output as only:<br />
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09/10
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Right now, I place a date on my page using the echo $rows['date']; variable from a query. It works fine, but it is printed out as:

2011-09-10

How do I use php to show the output as only:

09/10

Reformat date using PHP

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