[SOLVED] Basic substr problem

[robindean]

I'm still getting to know php (newbie). I need to remove zeros from a blogger generated archive script.

 

The script receives a yyyymmdd date string, let's say it's 20070401 (next month). I'm trying to return it as 4.1.2007 but must remove the zeros first, as it currently returns 04.01.2007 ... what's the math here? - or - Do you have a better method for all of this?

 

<bloggerarchives>

$y20070401 = substr('20070401', 0, 4);

$m20070401 = substr('20070401', -4, 2);

$d20070401 = substr('20070401', 6);

$p20070401 = $m20070401.'.'.$d20070401.'.'.$y20070401;

</bloggerarchives>

[per1os]

The mktime() function might be of use:

 

// get the unix time stamp
$time = mktime(0,0,0,$month, $day, $year);

$dateDisplay = date('m.n.Y', $time);

 

References:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

 

 

--FrosT

[boo_lolly]

frost has a good suggestion.

 

but if that's not an option, use str_replace()

[bwochinski]

<?php
$datestr = date("n.j.Y",strtotime('20070401'));
?>

 

$datestr = "4.1.2007";

[boo_lolly]

<?php
$datestr = date("n.j.Y",strtotime('20070401'));
?>

 

$datestr = "4.1.2007";

 

why didn't i think of that!?

[per1os]

Yea, I like bwochinkski's way better.

 

--FrosT

[robindean]

Many thanks! More newbie questions soon : )