PHP- strtotime not converting properly

Question

I don't understand why strtotime is returning a date off by a few days.

$expiration = '2015-07-19'; // yyyy-mm-dd
$exp = strtotime($expiration);
$exp = date('F m, Y',$exp);

echo $exp; // returns "July 07, 2015" (NOT the 19th)

What am I missing?

UPDATE: Even if I do this:

echo date('F m, Y');

It says it's August 8 when today is August 21! Why!?!?!?

see my answer. m is a repesentation of a month use d instead to represent days. F is a full textual representation of a month. Therefore you are using two month representation in your date function — JRN
– JRN, Commented Aug 22, 2014 at 3:47

JRN · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-22 03:51:26Z

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Here it is: Outputs July 19, 2015. See demo. You are using two characters to represent months in your date function. F and m are textual and numeric representations of a month. So change 'm' to 'd' to represent days. date("F d, Y") e.g. January 01, 2000

$expiration = '2015-07-19'; // yyyy-mm-dd
$exp = strtotime($expiration);
$exp = date('F d, Y',$exp);

echo $exp;

DEMO

edited Aug 22, 2014 at 3:51

answered Aug 22, 2014 at 3:33

JRN

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JRN Over a year ago

@JROB F and m are month representations. You are not using a character to represent a day so use change m to d to represent days.

MultiDev Over a year ago

Wow, thank you. It's been a long day I can't believe I did that... thank you!

JRN Over a year ago

@JROB It's great to help you bro!

MH2K9 · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-22 03:36:51Z

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Try this

$expiration = '2015-07-19'; // yyyy-mm-dd
$exp = strtotime($expiration);
//$exp = date('F m, Y',$exp);
$exp = date('jS F, Y',$exp);

Output

19th July, 2015

answered Aug 22, 2014 at 3:36

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