Re: Missing function.

Hi, Thank you Rasmus for replying. Developers, can it be added to PHP in next releases? Thanks in advance, Noor On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > 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 > >