Convert date to time stamp

[Dragosvr92]

Hello, i need a fast convertor that converts the date format 03-03-2008, 08:26 PM into a timestamp fast.

Like, you paste 03-03-2008, 08:26 PM into a post form, submit and it gives you the time stamp.

 

I made a convertor a whille ago, but you need to insert each numbers into a separate input box (day, months, year etc)

I cant remember how exactly it functions etc asi haventtouched PHP In a while.....

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

You mean a Unix timestamp? strtotime

[Dragosvr92]

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You mean a Unix timestamp? strtotime

Yes.

[Dragosvr92]

Well that was very helpful..

[ManiacDan]

strtotime() won't work well on this particular format because it's ambiguous.  You should use explode() to pull the date apart and then use mktime()

[Dragosvr92]

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strtotime() won't work well on this particular format because it's ambiguous.  You should use explode() to pull the date apart and then use mktime()

Thank you, i will look at that tomorrow. I didnt thought on using explode()

I remembered why i had to use a input for each area and didnt made it like this

[Dragosvr92]

It took me a few hours to figure it out, and make it, after i last posted,but i have done it using preg_split()

as i needed to split it by the 3 symbols =>  - , :

[ManiacDan]

$a = '03-03-2008, 08:26 PM';
list($date, $time) = explode(', ', $a);
list($month, $day, $year) = explode('-', $date);
$b = strtotime("{$year}-{$month}-{$day} {$time}");
echo date('c', $b);
//2008-03-03T20:26:00-05:00

-Dan

[Dragosvr92]

Thanks Dan, but that doesnt look like what i need.

 

I Made the script myself, but i have a problem on detecting if its either morning or night, using mktime().

For example there may be 03-05-2008, 02:17 AM, and 03-05-2008, 02:17 PM.

 

A solution i thought about would be to make some if statement and check if PM is selected, and if it is, check an array and if it finds, for example: " 03 " it replaces it with " 15 ".

 

here is some lame script i made.....

 

 

$chars[5] outputs PM/AM

$chars[3] outputs the hour

 

<?//AM
if ($chars[5]=='AM' || $chars[3])

{
array{
"01" = "13";
"02" = "14";
"03" = "15";
"04" = "16";
"05" = "17";
"06" = "18";
"07" = "19";
"08" = "20";
"09" = "21";
"10" = "22";
"11" = "23";
"12" = "00";
}
}
?>

 

Can you please give me a example?

[ManiacDan]

Exactly what I posted above, except replace 'c' with 'A'

[Dragosvr92]

With c it outputs 2008-03-03T20:26:00+00:00

With A it outputs PM/AM

 

This is my Code:

<?
if (isset($_POST['DATE']))
{
$str = $_POST['DATE'];
$chars = preg_split('/[-:, ]+/', $str);

$timestamp = mktime($chars[3], $chars[4], '00', $chars[0], $chars[1], $chars[2]);

echo date('m-d-Y, h:i A', $timestamp);
echo '<br />', '<br />';
echo $timestamp;
}
?>

 

I just need to make an array and replace for example 08 with 20, so that the time may be set as PM.

I think you are getting confused :-\

[ManiacDan]

Ok, really, date() can output a date in any format you want.  Check the manual page.

[Dragosvr92]

And i need to output the date using mktime() to output the timestamp. the timestamp is what i need, not the date.

[ManiacDan]

$b in my example is already a timestamp.

[Dragosvr92]

Thank You very much Dan.

Sorry for my late reply.