#34932 [NEW]: Quarter as parameter in the Date function

From: sandved at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: 5.1.0RC3 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Quarter as parameter in the Date function Description: ------------ (I tried to add an argument to http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15184 but didn't succeeded): The Date function may need a way to display a quarter defined standard (in SQL for example) as follow Value Description 1 - Period January/March 2 - Period April/June 3 - Period July/Sep 4 - Period Oct/December by using Q as an parameter as in SQL - http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/to_date.php Reproduce code: --------------- new feature Expected result: ---------------- date('Y\-\QQ') returns 2005-Q1 for all dates 2005-01-01/2005-03-31 2005-Q2 for all dates 2005-04-01/2005-06-30 2005-Q3 for all dates 2005-07-01/2005-09-30 2005-Q4 for all dates 2005-10-01/2005-12-31 Ex: 2005-Q1 for the date 2005-02-09 2005-Q4 for the date 2005-12-14 Actual result: -------------- new feature -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34932&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34932&r=mysqlcfg