[SOLVED] Getting the content between to characters

[neddry]

Hey

 

I am looking into a function that could grab the info between two characters what I have at the moment is a loop and in the loop I want to strip the time from the datetime stamp

 

default: 2009-08-12T01:00:00+01:00

 

 

so what I am trying to get is the variable between the T and the +

 

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

 

 

Thanks

 

[perrij3]

I think you have to explode the information.

 

Here is an example of a date that I explode. The date came from a MySQL Database and saved in the format (Y-M-D)

 

 	if (isset($visitrow['Date'])) {
	$date = explode('-', $row['Date']);
	$month = $date[1];
	$day = $date[2];
	$year = $date[0];
	}

[Philip]

Using the datetime class you can extract any part you need:

 

$d = date_create('2009-08-12T01:00:00+01:00');
echo date_format($d, 'm/d/Y -- H:i:s P');

 

Look at date for the formatting strings....

 

Edit: (this is given you're using PHP 5.2+, if not there are still ways to do it - but this class has made it easier)

[TeNDoLLA]

You could also use regexp.

<?php
$str = '2009-08-12T01:00:00+01:00';
preg_match('/[0-9-]*T(.*)\+/', $str, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]); // 01:00:00

[neddry]

Thanks for your prompt replies. I ended up using the explode with substr to get it exact.

 

Many thanks