用PHP内联更改日期格式的问题

Question

I am pulling a date from a database and it is in the format 2017-12-07. That is how I was displaying the date, however, I would like to display is like Dec 7, 17.

What I tried.

echo "<td>" . date_format($row['returndate'],'M d, y') . "</td>";

My results end up empty. I have successfully changed the date format with in the MYSQLI line, however, I was wanting to do it with PHP.

UPDATE

I apologize, it seems I over looked something simple. Below fixed it.

date('M d, y', strtotime($row['returndate']))

I guess you have to do strtotime before date.

Answer 1

Try this

echo "<td>" . date('M d, y', strtotime($row['returndate'])) . "</td>";

Output

Dec 07, 17 

Answer 2

date_format requires an DateTime object. In your case, you can simply use (without class DateTime ):

print date('M d, y', strtotime('2017-12-07'));
Dec 07, 17

Or if you would like to use DateTime exactly, you can try:

php > $d = new DateTime('2017-12-07');
php > print $d->format('M d, y');
Dec 07, 17

Answer 3

You should use the php DateTime class:

$date = new DateTime($row['returndate']);
echo $date->format('M d, y');

Answer 4

You can directly pass the date , first create date object and then pass it date_format For eg:

$date = date_create($row['returndate']);
echo "<td>" . date_format($date,'M d, y') . "</td>";

Output

Dec 07, 17