How to print just the date when importing dateTime from PHP

[timyboy12345]

Hi there,

I am currently creating a page where you can view statistics from a game I made. I am importing date from a MySQL database with the a DateTime row. Now I want to display just the month and day on my x-axis, instead of year, month, day, and the exact time. I know there is a documentation, but I couldn’t find a working solution over there.

I currently have this as the PHP:

//Maak verbinding met server
$servername = "..";
$username = "..";
$password = "..";
$dbname = "..";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM geometry_results WHERE " . $_SESSION['userID'] . " = userID ORDER BY datum asc";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

$dataPoints = array();

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // output data of each row
    while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        $results = $row['goed'];
        $mes = date(2000, 10, 10);

        // $text = 'Time: ' . $row['time'];

        array_push($dataPoints, array("y" => ($row['tijd'] / 10), "label" => date($row['datum']), "wins" => $row['goed'], "false" => $row['fout']));
        // array_push($dataPoints, array('y' => Date(2012, 02, 02), "label" => $row['datum']));

    }
} else {
    $results = "0 results";
}

$conn->close();

And this as a script to load the statistics in a line diagram:
https://hastebin.com/ekidupukuq.js

• This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by timyboy12345.

[Indranil]

@timyboy12345,

In the code snippet that you have shared, the date-time values being read from database are assigned as labels instead of assigning it as x values. Hence, setting the valueFormatString won’t work in this case. Instead, you can go with one of the following options:

1) Format the date before assigning it to the label, or
2) Pass it as date-time and assign it to x value. And format it using valueFormatString.

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Indranil Deo,
Team CanvasJS