String to Date?

[deep]

Hello,

I got this string "2004-02-19" (YYYY-MM-DD) and I need to turn it into a Date?

How do I do that?

Thanks!

[dave420]

Use the strtotime() function 🙂

[deep]

I did but it keeps returning some strange numbers... cant make them out... 😕

[dave420]

Take a look at the documentation for strtotime(), and if the format the date is being passed to you isn't supported, you can use preg_match() to turn it into a supported format.

good luck! 🙂

dave

[deep]

I hade to use:

date ("Y-m-d", strtotime($birthDay));

Thanks!

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by deep
I hade to use:

date ("Y-m-d", strtotime($birthDay));


Thanks!

Okay; so you're taking a string "2004-04-19" and you're turning it into a string "2004-04-19". Okay.

[deep]

Yea, BUT i noticed that if i add f.e.g. 1966-02-17 instead i still get the date today.... when using date()... and thats still wrong...

[batman]

Hello,

I got this string "2004-02-19" (YYYY-MM-DD) and I need to turn it into a Date?

How do I do that?

"2004-02-19" is already a date. date() will always get todays date unless otherwise specified.

$tomorrow = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d")+1, date("Y"));