[SOLVED] strtotime ?

[ainoy31]

Hello-

 

I need a second eye on this.  I have a date format that is in 22/12/2007.  I pass this data over to the next page to convert into 2007-12-22.  However, this is my issue.  Instead, I get a date of 1969-12-31.  Here is my code:

 

 

$date = $_POST["ship_date"];
$ship_date = date("Y-m-d", $strtotime($date));
echo "Ship Date: " . $ship_date . "<br>";

 

Much appreciation. AM

[dsaba]

$strtotime($date));

 

if strtotime is supposed to be a function there shouldn't be a $ in front of it

$ (dollar signs) precede variables, not functions

[ainoy31]

That was I typo on my part.

 

$date = $_POST["ship_date"];

$ship_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date));

 

I still get the 1969-12-31 value.

[rajivgonsalves]

from my expierience I don't think it accepts dd/mm/yyyy format it however accepts mm/dd/yyyy format.

[dsaba]

if strtotime() has trouble accepting your format and you can use mktime() to send in the parameters manually, you can parse the date string yourself to get the arguments

[Lumio]

what is in $_POST['ship_date']? Maybe not that, what you need

[ainoy31]

Here is my solution:

 

$date = $_POST["ship_date"];
$d = explode('/', $date);
$yr = $d[2];
$mo = $d[1];
$dy = $d[0];
$ar = array('year' => $yr, 'mon' => $mo, 'day' => $dy);
$ship_date = implode("-", $ar);
echo "Ship Date: " . $ship_date . "<br>";

 

This gave me the format that I needed.  yyyy-mm-dd.  Thanks for all the suggestions.

[beansandsausages]

Here is my solution:

 

$date = $_POST["ship_date"];
$d = explode('/', $date);
$yr = $d[2];
$mo = $d[1];
$dy = $d[0];
$ar = array('year' => $yr, 'mon' => $mo, 'day' => $dy);
$ship_date = implode("-", $ar);
echo "Ship Date: " . $ship_date . "<br>";

 

This gave me the format that I needed.  yyyy-mm-dd.  Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

what does explode & implode do. Never heard of them before.

[dsaba]

what does explode & implode do. Never heard of them before.

 

I heard someone mention the word "google" the other day. What does it mean/do?

[beansandsausages]

was only a question, never heard them used in a php script