Re: String to Date and Date to String Functions?

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:03, Ben Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:38:03 -0600, Jay Blanchard > <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > String to Date Function > > ---------------------------- > > return date stringToDate( str Date, str Format ) > > e.g. $todayDt = stringToDate( '01/01/2003','DD/MM/YYYY' ); > > > > Date to String Function > > ---------------------------- > > return str dateToString( date Date, str Format ) > > e.g. $todayStr = dateToString ( $todayDt,'DD/MM/YYYY' ); > > > > Anyone know of any functions that do this or have pointers as to how > > it can be done. > > [/snip] > > > > You've looked at http://www.php.net/date ? > > > Yes. It douse the dateToString bit but how do I do the reverse. I > can use it to convert a timestamp to a string but how do I convert a > string to a timestamp. > > I must say i've used a few languages in my time and the PHP data/time > functions are a mess. Generaly when you find a function to do > something to a data item there is an obvious way of reversing this > (i.e. it has a simeler name). This douse not seem to be the case with > PHP;( I have never come across something that I could not achieve using a combination of mktime, date, time, and strtotime. I think mktime is the piece you are missing. I have been irritated by date parsing in the past but "If it works ... " HTH Bret