note 72847 deleted from function.strtotime by nlopess

Note Submitter: allinfo at spamless dot syclone dot net Reason: integrated ---- Example 432 doesn't escape the letter 'o' in the argument to date(), so the resulting string doesn't look right. <?php $str = "September 7, 1976"; // previous to PHP 5.1.0 you would compare with -1, instead of false if (($timestamp = strtotime($str)) === false) { echo "The string ($str) is bogus"; } else { /* This doesn't work. The date() function interpolates the letter 'o' in 'of' as an "ISO-8601 year number" */ echo "$str == " . date('l dS of F Y h:i:s A', $timestamp); //September 7, 1976 == Tuesday 07th 1976f September 1976 12:00:00 AM /* This works. The letters o and f are escaped with slashes. */ echo "$str == " . date('l dS \o\f F Y h:i:s A', $timestamp); //September 7, 1976 == Tuesday 07th of September 1976 12:00:00 AM } ?> According to the docs for date(), the 'o' character was added in PHP 5.1.0. It may be worthwhile to escape every non-whitespace character in the format string, in case more functionality is added in the future.