[SOLVED] strtotime

[richiec]

Hey all so im building this one page on my site and it requires people to put in a time and then it will save the time and also a time 36 hours after the time which is put in. So basically a time and then 36 hours after that time but i keep traveling back in time lol

 

I have this in my code:

 

//example:  October 26th, 2009, 12:00 pm
$updatetime = $_POST["updatebosstime"];

//date and time 36 hours after the example
$ts = strtotime("$updatetime") + (60 * 60 * 36);
$nt = date("F jS, Y, g:i a ", $ts);

 

however its just coming up with January 2nd, 1970, 6:59 am whenever it gets updated, any ideas on how to fix it to display correctly?

[JonnoTheDev]

$future = strtotime("+36 hour", strtotime($updatetime));
print date('d-m-Y H:i:s', $future);

[richiec]

still does the same thing

[JonnoTheDev]

Then check your syntax. The following works perfectly:

<?php
$future = strtotime("+36 hour", strtotime("October 26th, 2009, 12:00pm"));
print date('d-m-Y H:i:s', $future);
?>

I notice you are enclosing varaibles in quotes as function parameters i.e.

strtotime("$updatetime")

This is bad syntax. Also validate the data that comes from your form. Is it a valid date string?

print $_POST['updatebosstime'];

If no valid date is contained within the post array the unix epoch date is used 01-01-1970

[richiec]

I just tried it on a fresh page with nothing else on it and this is all that was printed back:

 

02-01-1970 06:59:59 <-- using exactly what you just posted

 

October 26th, 2009, 12:27 pm <-- print $_POST['updatebosstime'];

[JonnoTheDev]

This exact code produces an invalid date on your server?

<?php
$future = strtotime("+36 hour", strtotime("October 26th, 2009, 12:00pm"));
print date('d-m-Y H:i:s', $future);
?>

If so check the timezone environment variables on your php installation. What version are you running. You may need to use a US English date format.

 

Read the description of the strtotime function

http://uk.php.net/strtotime

[richiec]

Well i have got it working now, i just broke it all down and changed a few things around. This is how i got it working, its not great but it works lol:

 

First of all i split the date and time from the form so one is date the other is time, i also changed the submitted format around to now be submitted as 10-26-09 and 1:35 PM

 

$updatebosstime = $_REQUEST['updatebosstime'];
$updatebossdate = $_REQUEST['updatebossdate'];

$temp = explode("-",$updatebossdate);
$newdate = $temp[2] . "-" . $temp[0] . "-" . $temp[1];

$ts = strtotime("$newdate $updatebosstime") + (60 * 60 * 36);
$nt = date("F jS, Y, g:i a", $ts);

 

like i said, its not great and its just temp until i figure out how to get it working the shorter way instead of being so messy but it works for now.

 

Thanks for the help, now i just need to figure out how to work out how long is left until the 36 hours a count down timer kinda thing lol

 

~Rich