note 115684 added to function.date-parse-from-format

For use in Versions prior V5.3: <?php if (!function_exists('date_parse_from_format')) { function date_parse_from_format($format, $date) { // reverse engineer date formats $keys = array( 'Y' => array('year', '\d{4}'), 'y' => array('year', '\d{2}'), 'm' => array('month', '\d{2}'), 'n' => array('month', '\d{1,2}'), 'M' => array('month', '[A-Z][a-z]{3}'), 'F' => array('month', '[A-Z][a-z]{2,8}'), 'd' => array('day', '\d{2}'), 'j' => array('day', '\d{1,2}'), 'D' => array('day', '[A-Z][a-z]{2}'), 'l' => array('day', '[A-Z][a-z]{6,9}'), 'u' => array('hour', '\d{1,6}'), 'h' => array('hour', '\d{2}'), 'H' => array('hour', '\d{2}'), 'g' => array('hour', '\d{1,2}'), 'G' => array('hour', '\d{1,2}'), 'i' => array('minute', '\d{2}'), 's' => array('second', '\d{2}') ); // convert format string to regex $regex = ''; $chars = str_split($format); foreach ($chars AS $n => $char) { $lastChar = isset($chars[$n - 1]) ? $chars[$n - 1] : ''; $skipCurrent = '\\' == $lastChar; if (!$skipCurrent && isset($keys[$char])) { $regex .= '(?P<' . $keys[$char][0] . '>' . $keys[$char][1] . ')'; } else if ('\\' == $char) { $regex .= $char; } else { $regex .= preg_quote($char); } } $dt = array(); $dt['error_count'] = 0; // now try to match it if (preg_match('#^' . $regex . '$#', $date, $dt)) { foreach ($dt AS $k => $v) { if (is_int($k)) { unset($dt[$k]); } } if (!checkdate($dt['month'], $dt['day'], $dt['year'])) { $dt['error_count'] = 1; } } else { $dt['error_count'] = 1; } $dt['errors'] = array(); $dt['fraction'] = ''; $dt['warning_count'] = 0; $dt['warnings'] = array(); $dt['is_localtime'] = 0; $dt['zone_type'] = 0; $dt['zone'] = 0; $dt['is_dst'] = ''; return $dt; } } ?> Not my invention though. I found it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6668223/php-date-parse-from-format-alternative-in-php-5-2 Thought this might be a good place to keep a copy in case someone stumbles upon the same problem facing outdated PHP versions on customer servers .... ---- Server IP: 212.124.37.9 Probable Submitter: 62.154.164.2 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse-from-format.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/115684 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115684 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/115684 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php