Quick Date Format Question?

[Solarpitch]

Hey,

 

If I have a variable that contains the date like...

 

$today = "3-02-08";

 

... is there anyway I can convert the date to this format from this variable...

 

20080203  <--- excatly like that

 

 

 

Thanks.

[Aureole]

If you mean, convert a time-stamp into an actual readable date then you're looking for date(), if you mean change the date into a time-stamp then I think you want mktime().

 

<?php
// Example...
$timestamp = "12859325";
$time= date( 'l  jS M Y, g:i a', $timestamp );
echo( $time );
?>

[Solarpitch]

Right, I see what you mean. I am starting to wonder if there are issues with the date function in php 4? I have the below function that will take a start time and a finish time and bascially loop through start to finish producing 15min intervals in between.

 

When I test this on php5 it works fine, however on php4 it wont populate the combo box with the generated loop list. Thats why I am afraid to try using the way you specified

 

<?php 

function get_lunch_time($lunch_start, $lunch_finish){


$st = strtotime(date('Y-m-d') . $lunch_start);
$en = strtotime(date('Y-m-d') . $lunch_finish);
$int = 15 * 60; // number of seconds in 15 minutes


$select = "<select name=\"time\" id='listboxes' >";
	for ($i = $st; $i <= $en; $i += $int) {
    $time = date('h:i a',$i) . "<br>\n";
	$select .= "<option value=\"".$time."\">".$time."</option>";
}

$select .= "</select>";

return $select;
}

?>

[Solarpitch]

Sorry guys but I am still not getting this.

 

How can I convert "05-02-08" to "20080205" .. I've been messign around with strtotime and the rest of the functions... the closest I got was the 1970's  :-\

 

 

[alecks]

$date = strtotime(05-02-08);

$date = date('Ydm');

 

i think should do it, play with the format...

[Solarpitch]

Thanks, but that wont convert it.. it will only display todays date in the 20080203 format

[CerealBH]

thats the way 2 convert it... strtotime then u convert it with date...