php - mktime or strtotime?

php strtotime mktime
n00b0101 picture n00b0101 · Feb 9, 2010 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I'm trying to convert 2010-02 to February, 2010. But, I keep getting December, 1969

I've tried using mktime, strtotime, and some combination of the two, but still haven't been able to do it...

This is what I tried most recently... 

$path_title = date('F, Y', mktime(0,0,0,2,0,2010));

Answer

deceze picture deceze · Feb 9, 2010

This would be a way to do it:

$dateString = '2010-02';
list($year, $month) = explode('-', $dateString);
$timeStamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year);
echo date('F, Y', $timestamp);

Another way would be:

$dateString = '2010-02';
$timestamp = strtotime($dateString . '-01');
echo date('F, Y', $timestamp);

strtotime can't handle ambiguous dates like "2010-02", but if you make it a full date it should work.

Otherwise, you may want to look into something like DateTime::createFromFormat.

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