strtotime() quick problem

[Ty44ler]

$time = "8:00 AM";
$time2 = $data['arrived'.$i]; //echo's out to be "8:00 AM"

		if (($timestamp = strtotime($time)) === false) {
		echo "The string ($time) is bogus";
		} else {
			echo date('h:i A', $timestamp);
				}

 

This function works when I put in $time but doesn't work when I put in $time2.

 

$time2 echo's out to be "8:00 AM"

 

$data['arrived'.$i] comes from a form that the user selects the time form.

 

Why does $time work, but $time2 doesn't? They echo out the same thing.

[Muddy_Funster]

When you say "it doesn't work" what exactly is it not doing? And why exactly are you using === and not == ?

[Ty44ler]

I'm trying to get a time (8:00 AM) to convert to military time (0800). It doesn't get converted. I noticed my date() function wasn't outputting the right format, but it still didn't work nonetheless.

 

Here's a more basic code of mine:

 

$time2 = '8:00 AM';
echo date('Hi', strtotime($time2))//time2

outputs 0800

 

$time1 = $_POST['arrived1']; //echo's to be "8:00 AM"
echo date('Hi', strtotime($time1)) //time1

outputs 0000

[Muddy_Funster]

Can I see your form? as well as the origin of $i.

[Ty44ler]

Take a look at the second reply. It gives the same results and doesn't use i.

 

$i is just a counter.

 

It'll be actually kind of hard to show you the form, that part of the form is generated dynamically through javascript, but still passes the data the same.

Javascript:

<form method="post" action="submitworkorder.php" name="ComplianceForm" >
<input name=\"arrived'+i+'\" type=\'text\' value=\'8:00 pm\'><input type="submit" value="Preview" name="Preview" /></form>

This code is in a for loop that displays it a number of times depending on user input. I cut out most of the stuff that didn't matter. It gets shown through innerHTML javascript.

[Ty44ler]

I just realized I had

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

set which was messing it up.

 

 

It still doesn't work as it is giving me 1900 hours now when it should be 0800.

[Muddy_Funster]

your form lists "value=\'08:00 pm\' " that may be where the 19:00 is coming from. I'm guessing from the escaped single quotes you have this nested in an echo.  also, you haven't terminated your first <input> but that's neither here not there for this.

[Ty44ler]

I had a little revelation...

 

I put in 800 as the value for the formula and it resulted in 1900. This is the same result when I put my variable in there.

 

So, instead of being read as 8:00 AM I believe it is only being read as 800 in the formula (but it clearly echo's out to 8:00 AM). Whyyyyy????? ahhhhh.... :confused:

 

oh and by the way, I edited the values for the input to make sure they weren't messing with anything.

[Ty44ler]

Alright, after digging around, I've found it has to do with this javascript time selector I had that inputs the data into the text box. Somehow it messes with it so it doesn't believe that it is a string when it's being input.

[Ty44ler]

figured it out. The javascript string that it was placing in the textbox had a   in it. I took it out and placed a regular space in and it worked like a charm.