PHP: formatting a date from mySQL to be date only

Question

I am displaying some records from mySQL from php and one of the fields I echo out is a date field but it currently prints out the time at the end to.

How can I just

Answer 1

The best way would be to do this on the DB level:

SELECT CAST(yourfield AS DATE) FROM .....

In PHP you can simply use this:

$parts = explode(' ', $field);
$datePart = $parts[0];