note 32268 deleted from function.strtotime by sniper
| From: | sniper@php.net | Date: | Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:02:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 32268 deleted from function.strtotime by sniper | ||
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Note Submitter: tippy2k
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For US date formating (mm-dd-yy[yy]) to Unix Timestamp try this example:
<html>
<body>
<?
function stripdash($date) {
for($i=1; $i < 10; $i++) {
$find = "-0".$i."-";
$replace = "/".$i."/";
$date = str_replace($find, $replace, $date);
}
for($i=1; $i < 32; $i++) {
$find = "-".$i."-";
$replace= "/".$i."/";
$date = str_replace($find, $replace, $date);
}
return $date;
}
if ($field) {
$date = trim($field);
$date = stripdash($date);
echo "Date Submited: $date<br>"; // with stripdash
$timestamp = strtotime ($date);
$new_date = getdate ($timestamp);
echo "Date Computed: ".$new_date['month']."
".$new_date['mday'].",
".$new_date['year']."<br>";
echo "Timestamp Computed: $timestamp<br>";
}
?>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
Date:<br>
<input name="field" type="text">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
This script will display -1 if it encounters a date out of range (< 1903 or > 2038) or in some
cases where century (yyyy) is needed to calculate the timestamp.
Thanks to irmak for the idea.