[thelist] Date & time formatting

[Max Schwanekamp]

Santilal Parbhu wrote:
> > I want to be able to enter times and 
> > dates in a format like say "12:00pm May 21", 
I wrote:
> PHP's strtotime() may help you allow some more flexible date 
> input formats.
Santilal Parbhu wrote:
> I have tries this but I can't make it accept the input format 
> dd/m/y.  This is the code I am using to store the date.
> $year = '/06';
> 		$entered_date = "{$HTTP_POST_VARS['matchdate']}";
> 		$ddate = $entered_date . $year;
> 		$ddate = strtotime("$ddate");
> 		print"$ddate";
> You can see that actually I am inputing the format dd/mm.  
> The year is concatenated onto the end of the date.  I am 
> posting the date to mysql via a form.

Ah, strtotime() has its limitations!  The format you originally supplied
would work fine, but the dd/m format won't work.  If you're enforcing that
format, you might simply do:
$dateParts = explode('/',$entered_date);
$ddate = strtotime($dateParts[1].'/'.$dateParts[0].'/'.$year);

Again, store the result as a unix timestamp in MySQL.  Makes date-time
operations a lot easier down the road.

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