Hi Monks,
I running a query to a database and after getting all the results back I am left with a problem trying to sort trough the values for displaying the data, since it's stored in different fields in the data base.
After the query, month (Field Name for the Month in DB table) gets stored in $month.
day (Field Name for the Day in DB table) gets stored in $day.
year (Field Name for the Year in DB table) gets stored in $year.
Now my problem is that I am trying to sort these values and format the dates properly like 11/25/2004 at the end, any suggestions?
I need to format the data and display an option of displaying in numeric order like:

<loop will be here>{
print “$day/$month/$year<br>”;
}

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Result prints:
8/8/2004
1/13/2002
1/12/2002
2/10/2002
11/1/2000

Thanks for the help!

In reply to Sorting Question by Anonymous Monk

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