Extracting only date from datetime field (mysql) and assigning it to php variable

Question

I am unable to assign only date to a php variable from datetime field of a MySQL table. I am using PHP 4, I know how to do it in PHP 5.

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Answer 1

There is a link I find extremely useful when it comes to date manipulations: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html

one can easily find the solution there:

SELECT *, DATE(Invdate) as Inv_date ...