MySQL Date_Format

Question

Hi
Can anyone tell me how they'd format this MySQL statement to read dates stored in MySQL?  The dates are pre-1970 so I'm having trouble using PHP echo date.
$query_rsGNresults = sprintf("SELECT * FROM gemnews_tab WHERE language LIKE %s AND entry LIKE %s AND works LIKE %s AND category LIKE %s ORDER BY date ASC;", GetSQLValueString($varLang_rsGNresults, "text"),GetSQLValueString($varEntry_rsGNresults, "text"),GetSQLValueString($varWorks_rsGNresults, "text"),GetSQLValueString($varCategory_rsGNresults, "text"));
I've tried
$query_rsGNresults = sprintf("SELECT * DATE_FORMAT(date, '%Y %M %d') FROM gemnews_tab WHERE language LIKE %s AND entry LIKE %s AND works LIKE %s AND category LIKE %s ;", GetSQLValueString($varLang_rsGNresults, "text"),GetSQLValueString($varEntry_rsGNresults, "text"),GetSQLValueString($varWorks_rsGNresults, "text"),GetSQLValueString($varCategory_rsGNresults, "text"));
but all I get is a sprintf error that there are too few arguments.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
J

Answer 1

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Mad Dog wrote:
> On recommendation of a few people here (yes, Murray, I
do listen to you
> sometimes!) I picked up DataAssist from WebAssist to
create a front-end
> database admin area for a client. Easily worth the money
since it saved me
> hours of gunky work creating one myself and the client
will be paying for
> it. One question though -- and yes, I've posted it on
the WebAssist forum
> but haven't had a response yet:
>
> - It's unwieldy to ask whoever's entering the data to
input the date as
> YYYY-MM-DD when no one thinks that way. Is there a way
to have them input it
> in US style (MM-DD-YYYY) and have it converted? It would
be a nice function
> to have built-in but since it's not, is there an
**easy** way to implement
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mad Dog
>
>