in my database I have a time stamp column...which reflects a format like this: 2012-04-02 02:57:54
However I would like to separate them up into $date
and $time
.
after some research through the php manual...I found that date() , date_format() and strtotime() are able to help me to separate them...(not sure if I am right)
but I not very sure of how to code it out...
In my php file...the timestamp extracted would be $row['DATETIMEAPP'].
Will
$date= strtotime('d-m-Y',$row['DATETIMEAPP']);
$time= strtotime('Gi.s',$row['DATETIMEAPP']);
or
$date= date('d-m-Y',$row['DATETIMEAPP']);
work?
Can i use date() to get the time as well??
Thanks in advance
$timestamp = strtotime($row['DATETIMEAPP']);
gives you timestamp, which then you can use date to format:
$date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp);
$time = date('Gi.s', $timestamp);
Alternatively
list($date, $time) = explode('|', date('d-m-Y|Gi.s', $timestamp));
If you dont want to change the format of date and time from the timestamp, you can use the explode
function in php
$timestamp = "2012-04-02 02:57:54"
$datetime = explode(" ",$timestamp);
$date = $datetime[0];
$time = $datetime[1];
$mydatetime = "2012-04-02 02:57:54";
$datetimearray = explode(" ", $mydatetime);
$date = $datetimearray[0];
$time = $datetimearray[1];
$reformatted_date = date('d-m-Y',strtotime($date));
$reformatted_time = date('Gi.s',strtotime($time));
$timestamp='2014-11-21 16:38:00';
list($date,$time)=explode(' ',$timestamp);
// just time
preg_match("/ (\d\d:\d\d):\d\d$/",$timestamp,$match);
echo "\n<br>".$match[1];
Works for me:
select DATE( FROM_UNIXTIME( columnname ) ) from tablename;
You can try this:
For Date:
$date = new DateTime($from_date);
$date = $date->format('d-m-Y');
For Time:
$time = new DateTime($from_date);
$time = $time->format('H:i:s');
Optionally you can use database function for date/time formatting. For example in MySQL query use:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(DATETIMEAPP,'%d-%m-%Y') AS date, DATE_FORMT(DATETIMEAPP,'%H:%i:%s') AS time FROM yourtable
I think that over databases provides solutions for date formatting too