note 45016 added to function.strtotime
| From: | MikeToppa at osu1 dot php dot net | Date: | Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:58:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 45016 added to function.strtotime | ||
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If you're using SQL Server, it returns dates as a fixed length field, which means you'll
often get whitespace at the end of a date. If you use strtotime() on such a date, it will behave
correctly about half the time. The other half, it will return -1 (to demonstrate, run it through a
web page, and keep hitting reload, and you'll see it randomly jump back and forth). This
isn't a strtotime bug, as I assume it's not designed to handle whitespace. So the solution
is to trim any dates you get from SQL Server tables before using strtotime() on them.
This is also a problem if you use Smarty's date formatting features. Trim dates you get from
SQL Server before you send them to Smarty.
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