Comments on: How to convert MySQL timestamp to PHP date type

By: Allen Liu

Allen Liu — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:27:56 +0000

Hi Rob,

You’re absolutely right. In most cases, this is probably the best option.

Allen

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:20:30 +0000

What about formatting the directly using MySQL – there is a built in MySQL fucntion called DATE_FORMAT that can do this :)

By: Allen Liu

Allen Liu — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:10:31 +0000

No problem. I glad it helped! =)

Allen

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:02:13 +0000

I had been looking for something like this for about a few hours until I finally found your post! Thank you very much!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:03:34 +0000

Thank you! Saved me time!

By: Allen Liu

Allen Liu — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:04:33 +0000

Thanks for the comment Michael. Best of luck to your website!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:53:48 +0000

Outstanding help from this guy. Thank you very much Allen

By: Allen Liu

Allen Liu — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:34:21 +0000

Thanks for the comment! You’re very welcome =)

By: Randall

Randall — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:13:38 +0000

Just wanted to say “thank you” for the quick help with mysql-to-unix timestamp conversion!
Guys like you make the web … work!

By: Allen Liu

Allen Liu — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:16:36 +0000

Hi Michael,

You have posted your CSS code but I will actually need your MySQL code that queries your database.

Allen

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:11:30 +0000

Thanks for your help in advance View Details // CSS code edited out

By: Allen Liu

Allen Liu — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:07:07 +0000

Hi Michael,

I’m glad to hear this helped. If you are having any number of rows replicated, it sounds like you are using multiple tables and not joining them correctly. If you give me your MySQL code, I may be able to help out.

Allen

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:01:35 +0000

Well that worked for me. I spent days trying to get my “date” to change from just returning the date in the myqsl table. However my rows are triplicated now!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:30:36 +0000

thanks I was really spinning around (at something completely basic) and am happy to finally found an answer for this old VB programmer such as myself.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:24:46 +0000

Great Post!! really works.

By: Raviraj Deora

Raviraj Deora — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:24:15 +0000

Great thanks…Superb post…

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:56:41 +0000

Perfect, exactly what I needed to do! The strtotime function is fantastic! Great post!

By: Gazza

Gazza — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:15:19 +0000

This is a great explanation. I was looking everywhere for an answer to what seemed like such a basic question and after reading this, it is now!! Thanks.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:25:37 +0000

These are excellent snippets.
Thank you very much for taking the time to post them!

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:22:46 +0000

Thanks for the clear and nicely written explanation.
My next adventure is to try and figure out how to calculate time difference between this result and now.
I want to display strings like “2 hours ago”, “1 week ago” etc.

Thanks again.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:14:52 +0000

Great, exactly what i was looking for!
Saved me a lot of time!

Thanks