Missing function.
| From: | noor at activeweb dot co dot il | Date: | Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:29:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Missing function. | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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Hello all,
I think I found a missing function in PHP's Date/Time functions. The
date()'s syntax is as follows:
string date(string format, int timestamp);
What is missing is a function to revert date() behavior as follows:
timestamp datestamp(string format, string date);
Behavior is as follows:
// Format current date.
$string = date( "m-d-Y" );
.
.
.
// Get time stamp from $string.
$time = datestamp( "m-d-Y", $string );
Is it possible to add this function in the next release of PHP, also in
PHP4 and PHP3 as I am still using version 3.0.9.
This will help in doing generic code to handle date and time functions
against SQL databases.
Thanks.
Noor