Formatting posted date

[Canman2005]

Hi all

 

I have a problem, if I use

 

print date("d M Y" ,strtotime('03/16/2007'));

 

then it prints

 

2007 03 16

 

which is great.

 

I have a form though, which posts a field called "expiry" with a date in the same format as above (ie: 03/16/2007), but I cant get the above to work with a posted date, for example. I have tried

 

$date = $_POST['expiry'];
print date("d M Y" ,strtotime("'".$date."'"));

 

But it always prints 01 Jan 1970

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Ed

[Barand]

$date = $_POST['expiry'];
print date("d M Y" ,strtotime($date));

[Canman2005]

Hi

 

that still produces 01 Jan 1970

 

thanks

[Barand]

Works fine for me ???

 

Is you form method POST, or GET?

[Canman2005]

post

[Barand]

if $_POST['expiry'] really contains '03/16/2007' then you have

<?php 

    $date = '03/16/2007';
    echo date ('Y m d', strtotime($date));

?>

--> 2007 03 16

[Canman2005]

thanks, I tried that previously and it worked fine, just seems to be an issue with my code, not sure what it is

[AndyB]

thanks, I tried that previously and it worked fine, just seems to be an issue with my code, not sure what it is

 

care to share your code?

[Barand]

try

<?php 
    echo $_POST['expiry'] . '<br>';
    $date = $_POST['expiry'];
    echo date ('Y m d', strtotime($date));

?>

 

and see what's in there. If you get 1st jan 1970 it's because it isn't recognising the date format

[Canman2005]

I get

 

18/03/2007

1970 01 01

[Barand]

That's d/m/y format, not m/d/y

 

strtotime doen't recognise that.