Thodoris wrote:
2009/7/28 Thodoris <tgol@kinetix.gr>:
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?
Does strtotime() not work for you?
Well actually it doesn't basically because I need to define the date's
format. This is because strtotime will use for this date:
7/8/2009
the *month/day/year* format but in Greece we usually write dates in
*day/**month/year* so this is causing me trouble.
I have written this in case there is an active database handler around:
function db_date2mysql($date_str,$date_format="%d/%m/%Y",$dbh=null) {
if (isset($dbh)) {
$sql = "SELECT STR_TO_DATE('$date_str','$date_format') AS date";
$ar = $dbh->query($sql)->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
return $ar['date'];
} else {
return null;
}
}
but I will need something more solid.
Just a side question about your function.
Is there a PDO::FETCH_OBJECT that could be used in place of the
PDO::FETCH_ASSOC that you show.
If so, could you shorten that by one line by doing this
return $dbh->query($sql)->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJECT)->date;
Thanks Jim !! That is a very good suggestion.
How did I miss that :-)
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Thodoris