date blues

[Dave#]

I have a script that pulls the latest eventd from my VB, the problem is that the date gets pulled in American rather than European format:

PHP Code:

<?php

include('../global.php');

$events = $DB_site->query("SELECT event, eventdate, eventid, subject
                           FROM calendar_events
                           WHERE public = 1 AND eventdate >= NOW()
                           ORDER BY eventdate LIMIT 8");
if ($DB_site->num_rows($events)) {
  echo "<ul>";
  while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
    echo "<li><font size=\"1\">".$event['eventdate']." <a
href='calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=".$event['eventid']."'>".$event['subject']."</a> <br>
        ";
  }
} else {
  echo "No Events";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

anyone help me get the date in European Format?

dd-mm-yy

TIA

[Gary King]

PHP Code:

<?php

include('../global.php');

$events = $DB_site->query("SELECT event, eventdate, eventid, subject
                           FROM calendar_events
                           WHERE public = 1 AND eventdate >= NOW()
                           ORDER BY eventdate LIMIT 8");
if ($DB_site->num_rows($events)) {
  echo "<ul>";
  while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
        list($year,$month,$day)=split("-",$event['eventdate']);
    echo "<li><font size=\"1\">$day-$month-$year <a
href='calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=".$event['eventid']."'>".$event['subject']."</a> <br>
        ";
  }
} else {
  echo "No Events";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

[Dave#]

Thanks Gary -

I ended up doing it like this:

PHP Code:

<?php

include('../global.php');

$events = $DB_site->query("SELECT event, DATE_FORMAT(eventdate,'%d %M') AS date, eventdate, eventid, subject
                           FROM calendar_events
                           WHERE public = 1 AND eventdate >= NOW()
                           ORDER BY eventdate LIMIT 8");
if ($DB_site->num_rows($events)) {
  echo "<ul>";
  while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
    echo "<li><font size=\"1\">".$event['date']." <a
href='calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=".$event['eventid']."'>".$event['subject']."</a> <br>
        ";
  }
} else {
  echo "No Events";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

The only problem with this is I can't seem to change the date format to support the actual day - like Friday 13th September

cheers

Dave

[Gary King]

Here you go
I changed include() to require(), you should use require instead of include, because the script becomes useless if it can't include the global.php
Only use include() if the script can still execute without including the file.

PHP Code:

<?php

require('../global.php');

$events = $DB_site->query("SELECT event, DATE_FORMAT(eventdate,'%d %M') AS date, eventdate, eventid, subject
                           FROM calendar_events
                           WHERE public = 1 AND eventdate >= NOW()
                           ORDER BY eventdate LIMIT 8");
if ($DB_site->num_rows($events)) {
  echo "<ul>";
  while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
        $timestring=strtotime($event['date']);
        $date=date("l jS F",$timestring);
    echo "<li><font size=\"1\">".$date." <a
href='calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=".$event['eventid']."'>".$event['subject']."</a> <br>
        ";
  }
} else {
  echo "No Events";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

[Dave#]

Today at 06:45 PM Gary W said this in Post #4
Here you go
I changed include() to require(), you should use require instead of include, because the script becomes useless if it can't include the global.php
Only use include() if the script can still execute without including the file.

PHP Code:

<?php

require('../global.php');

$events = $DB_site->query("SELECT event, DATE_FORMAT(eventdate,'%d %M') AS date, eventdate, eventid, subject
                           FROM calendar_events
                           WHERE public = 1 AND eventdate >= NOW()
                           ORDER BY eventdate LIMIT 8");
if ($DB_site->num_rows($events)) {
  echo "<ul>";
  while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
        $timestring=strtotime($event['date']);
        $date=date("l jS F",$timestring);
    echo "<li><font size=\"1\">".$date." <a
href='calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=".$event['eventid']."'>".$event['subject']."</a> <br>
        ";
  }
} else {
  echo "No Events";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

This gives me the date like

2003-07-23

Rather than

Friday 23rd June

Dave

[Velocd]

<a href="http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php" target="_blank">http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php</a>

[Gary King]

Today at 05:24 PM Dave# said this in Post #5
This gives me the date like

2003-07-23

Rather than

Friday 23rd June

Dave

Not for me.

[Dave#]

Today at 12:34 AM Gary W said this in Post #7
Not for me.

must of done a typo first time - works great - sincere thanks

Dave

[Gary King]

Glad I could help

[Dave#]

Gary - any idea why the code would give the icorrect day for dates in 2004?

http://www.cpfc.org/fixtures/