convert value to date

[anthill]

I have a set of values for example:

$var = 060203
or
$var = 140203

which to me, means 060203 = 6th Feb 2003

So i want to be able to convert these values back from the digit form of date to the format described above. Is that easy enough? I've read a few posts that discuss this but still couldn't figure it out 🙁

Thanks

Ant

[dotbands]

try:

$vardate = "060203";
$vardate = $vardate("dmy");
$vardate = strftime("jS F Y", $vardate);

The first two are to make sure it is set as a date. The third line re-formats the date.

[xblue]

the above probably won't work.

assuming you date is never before 1970, here's an approach:

steps:
separate day, month and year (substr() should do).
convert to unix timestamp with mktime().
pass timestamp to date() to format according to your needs.

[anthill]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: 060203() in \www\test.php on line 3

using:

$vardate = "060203";
$vardat = $vardate("dmy");
echo $vardate = strtftime("jS F Y", $vardat);

Thanks for the effort

Ant

[dotbands]

Try this instead (per xblue's suggestion):

$varday = substr("060203",4);
$varmon = substr("060203",2,2);
$varyr = substr("060203",0,2);
echo date ("jS F Y", mktime (0,0,0,$varday,$varmon,$varyr));

that definately works

[anthill]

well done xblue!

$var = "060203";
$day = substr($var, 0, 2);
$month  = substr($var, 2, 2);
$year = substr($var, 4, 2);

$format = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);

echo date("D M Y",$format);

oh didn't notice yours dotbands my connection stopped, but same thing 🙂

Cheers

Ant