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Change date display

 		1/17/2011 5:07:19 PM
PHPRunner General questions
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 mmponline author

Im using South Africa english in my project to get the right currency. Eg Rand. I want to change the date disPlayvto be dd mm yyyy though insyead of yyyymmdd. The first being more fommonly used in SA. Isthere a way to change this with view as, event or Js
Sergey Kornilov admin 1/17/2011

If one of standard date formats (regional settings) doesn't work for you you can choose 'View as' type 'Custom' and format date values according to your requirements.
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 		mmponline author 1/18/2011

Ive tried the following, No errors, but the field is displayed empty. Please assist. My date field is set to Short date in add / edit
$value = $data["dd/mm/yyyy"];

and

$value = $data['dd/mm/yyyy'];
Sergey Kornilov admin 1/18/2011

See examples at http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php