Displaying strtotime() effectively in MySQL/PHP query

Question

This is my PHP/MySQL query, as mentioned at Displaying links in PHP/MySQL?:

http://pastebin.com/5Td9Bybn

I\'ll admit, I\'ve forgotten how to use the strtotime()

Answer 1

Option 1

strtotime() will give you a timestamp, you use the function date() to format the display of time and/or date.

06:00

6:00am

6am

Read about date() and its formatting on php.net.

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Option 2

Do it in MySQL, as @Marc B suggests.

Change this line

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM presenters1;", $connection) or die("error querying database");

to

$result = mysql_query("SELECT *, TIME_FORMAT(airtime, '%h:%i') `airtime` FROM presenters1;", $connection) or die("error querying database");

Then, change this line:

to