date format issue, says 1970 always :(

[wmguk]

Hey,

I am trying to format a date, its not a timestamp, basically you select the day, month and year from a drop down and its put in to the database in 3 seperate fields..

so if i do


$datef = "$date_day"."$date_month"."$date_year" ;

then echo $datef it displays right (17082007)

now i try and format the output, and its wrong..


$date = date("jS F Y", $datef);


i get 17th February 1970

any ideas?

[Master_script_maker]

try:

$date = date("jS F Y");
echo $date;
and see what it outputs.

[JazzcatCB]

Hi, try this:



echo date( 'jS F Y', mktime( 0, 0, 0, $date_month, $date_day, $date_year );

[Twey]

Why are you storing it in this inefficient format instead of your database's native date type?