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July 7th, 2002, 09:13 PM

qutaibah

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date formating!!

Hi everyone

I am storing dates in one of my colums in a MMDDYY format. I was wondering what do I need to do to reformat this in a mySQL date format so I can retreave rows of spacific dates?

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July 20th, 2002, 09:37 AM

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What I do is to store the PHP time stamp in mysql database. And I wrote several functions to change to any format . It also makes possible to 'arrange' the date . calculate no. days and so on ..

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September 16th, 2002, 08:49 AM

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At www.devshed.com there is a great article called "Building A Quick-And-Dirty PHP/MySQL Publishing System " The author describes a grat function to sort this problem. He also includes the code to us in the html part, its wicked and simple

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