PHP Language - PHP4 date parsing

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PHP4 date parsing

Preben

2007-02-25, 6:58 pm

Hi everyone

How do I parse a date with PHP version 4.

The problem is that the date-format is like:

d-m-Y ( 15-08-2006 )

but strtotime won't accept this even though the setlocale function has
been used:
setlocale( LC_ALL, "da_DK", "da", "dan", "danish", "da_DK.ISO8859-1" );

Thanks for helping!

/ Preben

Preben

2007-02-25, 6:58 pm

> How do I parse a date with PHP version 4.
>
> The problem is that the date-format is like:
>
> d-m-Y ( 15-08-2006 )
>
>
> but strtotime won't accept this even though the setlocale function has
> been used:
> setlocale( LC_ALL, "da_DK", "da", "dan", "danish", "da_DK.ISO8859-1" );

I tried to list all the locales on the server - and there are none.. So
that's probably why.

So now I just used the split-function to parse the date manually.

Rik

2007-02-26, 3:59 am

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:42:56 +0100, Preben <64bitNONOSPAMno@mailme.dk>
wrote:

>
> I tried to list all the locales on the server - and there are none.. So
> that's probably why.
>
> So now I just used the split-function to parse the date manually.

Thank you for this wonderfull example against using strtotime(). Never
liked the unpredictability of this function :-)
--
Rik Wasmus

Michael Fesser

2007-02-26, 6:59 pm

..oO(Rik)

>Thank you for this wonderfull example against using strtotime(). Never
>liked the unpredictability of this function :-)

It's all documented:

| The function expects to be given a string containing a US English date
| format [...]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

| For numeric months, the ISO 8601 format `year-month-day' is allowed
| [...] The construct `month/day/year', popular in the United States, is
| accepted. Also `month/day', omitting the year.

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/man...111.html#SEC111

There's no word about locales, so you can't expect strtotime() to
recognize every localized date format.

In my projects I use my own date parser class, which uses some regular
expressions to recognize the most common formats (especially the German
dd.mm.yy[yy], which is what I usually need). If the matching fails, I
call strtotime() just as a fallback.

Micha

Preben

2007-02-26, 6:59 pm

Michael Fesser skrev:
> .oO(Rik)
>
>
> It's all documented:
>
> | The function expects to be given a string containing a US English date
> | format [...]
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Well, the documentation for setlocale states that it contains date
formatting settings - but looking closer it seems it's only for strftime

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