Formatting Date

[joesaddigh]

Hi,

 

When I do this the result is a date of zeros?

 

$DateAndTime = date('d-m-y', strtotime($DateAndTime));

 

All I want is a date in format of DD0MM-YYY and the Time in HH:MM::SS

 

Any help would be great! I know it is basic, Thanks in advance

[Zane]

When I do this the result is a date of zeros?

What is inside the variable $DateAndTime?

[joesaddigh]

Nothing its declared and assigned in the same statement

 

$DateAndTime = date('d-m-y', strtotime($DateAndTime));

 

All I want is the current date in the format DD-MM-YYYY followed by the time. This must be a simple task?

 

 

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

Yes it is simple, but look at what you're doing. You can't use the value of $DateAndTime like that. You're trying to assign the result to it based on it's value, which doesn't yet exist. Are you just trying to assign the current time to it?

[Zane]

Yes it is simple, but look at what you're doing. You can't use the value of $DateAndTime like that. You're trying to assign the result to it based on it's value, which doesn't yet exist. Are you just trying to assign the current time to it?

QFT

 

just change it to this if you want the current time.

$DateAndTime = date('d-m-y', time());

 

 

strtotime is meant to do exactly what the function suggests.. turn a string into a timestamp.

An example string being.

$variable = strtotime("4 days ago");

[joesaddigh]

I had the code like that at some point.

 

the output of that was this:

2020-10-11 00:00:00??

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks,

[joesaddigh]

hi,

 

It was the DB field being stored as a Date.

Changed to a string so will have a play now. Getting better results.

 

Thanks for your help

[Drummin]

Capital Y.

$DateAndTime=date('d-m-Y H:i:s');

[joesaddigh]

Perfect thanks for your help. It was the DB that was messing it all up for me. The code posted now works perfectly.