Re: Missing function.

> 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. This is not a trivial thing, but there is code in PHP 3/4 intended to solve this, but I am not sure of its current state. See the parsedate.c file in both trees. -Rasmus