#34797 [NEW]: strtotime() and strtointerval()

From: saverio dot caminiti at alfanet dot it Operating system: Irrelevant PHP version: 5.0.5 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: strtotime() and strtointerval() Description: ------------ The function strtotime() is really useful. But it always returns the minimum timestamp that match the input string. It should be even more useful to have a function strtointerval that return a two timestamps: the minimum timestamp that match the input and the maximum one. For example: - strtointerval(“Dec 3 2004”) should returns a minimum timestamp (0:0:0 Dec 3 2004) and a maximum one (23:59:59 Dec 3 2004). - strtointerval(“Dec 2004”) returns 0:0:0 Dec 1 2004 and 23:59:59 Dec 31 2004 - strtointerval(“2004”) returns 0:0:0 Jan 1 2004 and 23:59:59 Dec 31 2004 And so on. It should be also useful that strtointerval() parse English sentences like “between A and B” or “[form] A to B” where A and B are two valid input for the actual strtotime(). I guess that starting from the source code of strtotime() it should be not difficult to implement strtointerval(), perhaps through a function strtoMAXtime() that generate the maximum timestamp instead of the minimum one, and then adding the English interval sentences support. Thanks, Saverio. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34797&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34797&r=mysqlcfg