Hi

Ho to read date from HTML form ->
How to read $_POST['date']="dd/mm/YYYY" string variable as a date?

> Ho to read date from HTML form ->
> How to read $_POST['date']="dd/mm/YYYY" string variable as a date?

If you want a unix timestamp then try investigating strtotime().

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What do you mean read a string as a date, a date object?

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Hi

Ho to read date from HTML form ->
How to read $_POST['date']="dd/mm/YYYY" string variable as a date?

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> Well, when I try date('d/m/y', strtotime($_POST('date')) - it seems
> mixing day and month, I tried setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_GB'); but it didn't

strtotime() returns a unix timestamp (ie number of seconds since
1970ish. Nothing to do with the date object.

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>>
>> Well, when I try date('d/m/y', strtotime($_POST('date')) - it seems
>> mixing day and month, I tried setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_GB'); but it
>> didn't

If you're sure that's the format of the date, this will do it...

list($day, $month, $year) = explode('/', $thedate);
$thetimestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);

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