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How did you format the date on the home page of this site?

Casey

How did you format the date on the home page of this site? - 12/25/2008

Hey WebMaster! I wanted to know how you formatted the date from the database of your website. You placed the date into handy dandy little boxes. Please give me a heads up so I can do something similar in my site. Thanks Mans ;-)

WebMaster

Response - 12/252009

I used php regular expressions to get parts of the date that I wanted and then formatted it using css. The following is the php code I made to extract certian parts of the date in my database.

//Get the Year
$ydate = $row['event_date'];
$ydate = preg_replace('@(\b\d+\b\/)@', '', $ydate);

//Get the Month
$mdate = $row['event_date'];
$mdate = preg_replace('@(\/\b\d+\b\/\b\d+\b)@', '', $mdate);

$month['01'] = "January";
$month['02'] = "February";
$month['03'] = "March";
$month['04'] = "April";
$month['05'] = "May";
$month['06'] = "June";
$month['07'] = "July";
$month['08'] = "August";
$month['09'] = "September";
$month['10'] = "October";
$month['11'] = "November";
$month['12'] = "December";

//Get the Day
$ddate = '&' . $row['event_date'] . '&';
$ddate = preg_replace('@(\&\b\d+\b\/)@', '', $ddate);
$ddate = preg_replace('@(\/\b\d+\b\&)@', '', $ddate);

After I get the month, day, and year, I format the outcome into CSS div tags.