Can you use the PHP date() with array items?

I have an array $creation_date[] that I am looping throu开发者_JAVA技巧gh. This contains MySQL timestamps. I want to change these timestamps into dates like January 4, 1992. I have this code: date('F j, Y', $creation_date[$i]) (its in a while loop with $i incrementing it). It is returning an error at that line A non well formed numeric value encountered. Any idea what is wrong?

You first have to use the strtotime() function.

date() assumes a unix timestamp (like time()) as a second argument, and the string coming from mysql is a string :)

Try date('F j, Y', strtotime($creation_date[$i]));

not sure on that error but i think you need strtotime in there: date('F j, Y', strtotime($creation_date[$i]))

if that doesn't work, as you looping if you print the $creation_date[$i] does it print as expected?