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

echo date('d-m-Y', strtotime($queryresult) );

All date formatting options can be found here: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Answer 2

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];

Answer 3

The easiest way is to convert it in the mySQL query using DATE():

SELECT columnname, DATE(datecolumn) FROM .....