Hi

Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
"mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)

Try this:

http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php

Use the result with mktime to get the timestamp. I also checked
set_locale but that won't interfere with strtotime

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Merca, Ansta Ltd <merca@ansta.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)
>
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Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:
> Hi
>
> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)

setlocale()

and then...

http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

-Shawn

Shawn,

I think the idea here was to get a timestamp from a date in that
format he was telling about.

After replying however, I noticed that strptime is only implemented in
PHP5. Sorry about that mate.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote:
> Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
>> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)
>
> setlocale()
>
> and then...
>
> http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
>
> -Shawn
>
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Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> André Medeiros wrote:
>> Shawn,
>>
>> I think the idea here was to get a timestamp from a date in that
>> format he was telling about.
>>
>> After replying however, I noticed that strptime is only implemented in
>> PHP5. Sorry about that mate.
>>
>> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net>
>> wrote:
>>> Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
>>>> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)
>>> setlocale()
>>>
>>> and then...
>>>
>>> http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
>>>
>>> -Shawn
>>>
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>>>
> Couldn't see any other way. *nix strtotime is supposed to use locale.
>
Fixed that for me:

$date = '20/12/1971';
$d = explode('/', $date);
echo mktime(0 ,0, 0, $d[1], $d[0],$d[2])."\n";

>
> -Shawn

Yeah, that would be the way to do it

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote:
> Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>>
>> André Medeiros wrote:
>>>
>>> Shawn,
>>>
>>> I think the idea here was to get a timestamp from a date in that
>>> format he was telling about.
>>>
>>> After replying however, I noticed that strptime is only implemented in
>>> PHP5. Sorry about that mate.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
>>>>> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)
>>>>
>>>> setlocale()
>>>>
>>>> and then...
>>>>
>>>> http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
>>>>
>>>> -Shawn
>>>>
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>>>>
>> Couldn't see any other way. *nix strtotime is supposed to use locale.
>>
> Fixed that for me:
>
> $date = '20/12/1971';
> $d = explode('/', $date);
> echo mktime(0 ,0, 0, $d[1], $d[0],$d[2])."\n";
>
>>
>> -Shawn
>
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André Medeiros wrote:
> Yeah, that would be the way to do it
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote:
>> Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>>> André Medeiros wrote:
>>>> Shawn,
>>>>
>>>> I think the idea here was to get a timestamp from a date in that
>>>> format he was telling about.
>>>>
>>>> After replying however, I noticed that strptime is only implemented in
>>>> PHP5. Sorry about that mate.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
>>>>>> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)
>>>>> setlocale()
>>>>>
>>>>> and then...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
>>>>>
>>>>> -Shawn
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> Couldn't see any other way. *nix strtotime is supposed to use locale.
>>>
>> Fixed that for me:
>>
>> $date = '20/12/1971';
>> $d = explode('/', $date);
>> echo mktime(0 ,0, 0, $d[1], $d[0],$d[2])."\n";
>>
>>> -Shawn
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>>

I was bored. Just an example, and I named it _eur because I assume that
all European dates are this way, but some may have a / or a - or .
separator. intval() is to remove preceding 0 or it is treated as octal.

<?php

function strtotime_eur($date)
{
preg_match('|([0-9]{1,2})[/.-]([0-9]{1,2})[/.-]([0-9]{2,4})|',
$date, $parts);

if(count($parts) != 4) {
return false;
}
$d = intval($parts[1]);
$m = intval($parts[2]);
$y = intval($parts[3]);

return mktime(0 ,0, 0, $m, $d, $y);
}

?>

-Shawn