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Using Mysql date functions

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

This is something that slipped by me for a long time.

Like many other developers I know, I have written a function that takes a date from mysql (In any of the relevant formats, usually datetime though) and then formats it (Using substr() or strtotime() and date()) with PHP into a nice human readable format for display on the website.

There is a more elegant solution however.

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