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kshna and jocasio123, those work except the 'd' in the date() function needs to be a 'j' for the day to display without a leading zero (1 to 31).<br />
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Dave, thanks you for all your examples and for pointing out the potential locale issue.
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kshna and jocasio123, those work except the 'd' in the date() function needs to be a 'j' for the day to display without a leading zero (1 to 31).

Dave, thanks you for all your examples and for pointing out the potential locale issue.

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You're welcome, glad to help.
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I want a string of &quot;10/01/2011&quot; to be formatted as Oct 1, 2011 with php. How do I do this? Using strtotime()? Or srtftime()? Or date()?<br />
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I've done this before, but I can't quite seem to remember how. Thanks.
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I want a string of "10/01/2011" to be formatted as Oct 1, 2011 with php. How do I do this? Using strtotime()? Or srtftime()? Or date()?

I've done this before, but I can't quite seem to remember how. Thanks.

Help with php date formatting

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