date formatting and query strings

[miraclewhipkey]

I have a variable that receives the date format via the querystring, and then I have another variable that is supposed to extract only the 4 digit year out of that date, like this:

if ($HTTP_GET_VARS["date"]!="")
{
  $qstringdate = $HTTP_GET_VARS["date"];

  $m=date("n",$qstringdate);
  $y=date("Y",$qstringdate);
}

For testing I am trying to write out the values of both variables, to see what it is returning, and the values print like this:

Let's say I click on something that passes the date of 11/1/2002 through the querystring. It prints "$qstringdate" as "11/1/2002" just like its supposed to. But when I print "$y", it shows up as "1969".

Does anyone know what is causing the $y variable to read the 4-digit year out of the 11/1/2002 as 1969, instead of 2002?

[Toby]

You might wanna try

$y=date("Y",strtotime($qstringdate));

Date works with a timestamp...

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

HTH

Toby

[miraclewhipkey]

I'm feeling you on that. When I'm using date() , it can only format a valid timestamp, and when the date is passed through the querystring, it becomes a string. Kind of like datatypes from databases, and how you sometimes have to reformat them on the fly so that the function still knows you are talking about the same thing. I'll try that and see how it works out (when I get home). I wonder why it spit out "1969" instead of giving me an error message? I mean, sure, it was an interesting year in history, but c'mon. :p