Re: str_to_date equivalent in PHP
| From: | Jim Lucas | Date: | Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:03:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: str_to_date equivalent in PHP | ||
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Thodoris wrote:
> Hi gang,
> I've been looking for a str_to_date (mysql) equivalent in PHP. I've
> noticed that these are matching the description:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-create-from-format.php
>
> but I don't have PHP 5.3.0 installed in any of my systems to test it and
> the function/method is not well documented yet. So I will have to write
> a workaround this.
>
> Has anybody tried this?
>
You will probably want a combination of strtotime() and date()
example:
$date = date('Y/m/d', strtotime('yesterday'));
Jim Lucas