Re: date fields

Or you might just use PHP to do it:

echo date('l, d-m-Y', strtotime($this->data['Model']['date_field']));

Further reading:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

~wrdevos

On Sep 29, 4:50 pm, "Mike Karthauser" <mi...@brightstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, September 29, 2010 3:22 pm, james livsey wrote:
> > yeah its a database field - just a regular date outputting 'September 29
> > 2010' but i need to 'add' the day to that  output - does that make sense?
>
> > so if the outputted date is the above i need to work out that the day is a
> > Wednesday.
>
> you can use $time->format( $format = 'l, d-m-Y', $date_string) in the view
> to do that
>
> http://book.cakephp.org/view/275/Formatting
>
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>
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