downloads | documentation | faq | getting help | mailing lists | licenses | wiki | reporting bugs | php.net sites | links | conferences | my php.net

search for in the

date_parse> <date_offset_get
Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009

view this page in

date_parse_from_format

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)

date_parse_from_formatGet info about given date

Description

array date_parse_from_format ( string $format , string $date )

Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.

Parameters

format

Format accepted by date() with some extras.

date

String representing the date.

Return Values

Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.

Examples

Example #1 date_parse_from_format() example

<?php
$date 
"6.1.2009 13:00+01:00";
print_r(date_parse_from_format("j.n.Y H:iP"$date));
?>

The above example will output:

Array
(
    [year] => 2009
    [month] => 1
    [day] => 6
    [hour] => 13
    [minute] => 0
    [second] => 0
    [fraction] => 
    [warning_count] => 0
    [warnings] => Array
        (
        )

    [error_count] => 0
    [errors] => Array
        (
        )

    [is_localtime] => 1
    [zone_type] => 1
    [zone] => -60
    [is_dst] => 
)



add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
date_parse_from_format
voidless at qip dot ru
10-Apr-2009 10:56
Example of rewriting function for older PHP versions:

convert
April 8, 2009, 1:12 am
to
timestamp

<?php
function date2sql($str = ""){
$month_arr = array (
   
"January" => 1,
   
"February" => 2,
   
"March" => 3,
   
"April" => 4,
   
"May" => 5,
   
"June" => 6,
   
"July" => 7,
   
"August" => 8,
   
"September" => 9,
   
"October" => 10,
   
"November" => 11,
   
"December" => 12
);
preg_match('/([a-zA-Z]{3,9}) ([0-9]{1,2}), ([0-9]{4}),
([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}) ([ap])m/'
,$str,$matches2);
if (
$matches2[6]=="a") $hour = $matches2[4];
else
$hour = $matches2[4]+12;
if (
$hour==24) $hour=0;
return
mktime($hour,$matches2[5],0,
$month_arr[$matches2[1]],$matches2[2],$matches2[3]);
}
   
$time = date2sql("March 29, 2009, 12:12 pm");
    echo
"{$time}</br>\n";
?>

date_parse> <date_offset_get
Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009
 
 
show source | credits | sitemap | contact | advertising | mirror sites