strtotime busted :(

SeanTevlin

$thing = "2005-10-01";
$storedDate = date("z",strtotime($thing));
echo $storedDate;

it just alwats returns today's date, ive tried it on a php5 server and it worked fine however on the server I need this one it is PHP4.2

can anyone tell me why/how to fix this to work on php 4.2, I heard that with the release of php5 it caused a backwards compadibilty issue

Thanks a lot everyone.

Sean

toplay

What do you mean by it returns today's date? Do you mean it returns the number of days for today's date instead of October 1st 2005?

I ran your code on PHP 4.3.11 and got 273 (day of the year). Please note that "2005-01-01" will return zero, and "2005-01-02" will return one.

What's this for? are you needing it to put into a database? If so, you can use one of the many MySQL date and time functions:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/date-and-time-functions.html

SeanTevlin

yeah it returns the numberic value for today instead of octorber 1st 2005, any ideas for a work around? I need the format to be "z" days of year

toplay

Well, what value are you getting? I mentioned that I'm getting 273.

Try mktime() instead. Example:

$thing = '2005-10-01';
$month = (int) substr($thing, 5, 2);
$day   = (int) substr($thing, 8, 2);
$year  = (int) substr($thing, 0, 4);
// or do: list($year, $month, $day) = explode('-', $thing);

$storedDate = date('z', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year));
echo $storedDate;

🙂