Date string confusion

[GiantComm]

I have a date string being passed to my script that looks like this:

20060126130910

The format is Year/Month/Day/Hour/Minutes/Seconds.

What PHP function is used to convert this into a more human friendly format?

[gammaster]

Hi!

$dtString = '20060126130910';

$year  = substr($dtString, 0, 4);
$month = substr($dtString, 4, 2);
$date  = substr($dtString, 6, 2);
$hour  = substr($dtString, 8, 2);
$min   = substr($dtString, 10, 2);
$sec   = substr($dtString, 12, 2);

$dateTime = strtotime($year.'-'.$month.'-'.$date.' '.$hour.':'.$min.':'.$sec);

/*
Now you have it in a unix timestamp and can manipulate it as yoy want.
Example:
*/

echo strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').'<br>';

See: http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php about how to format the string output.

[gammaster]

Sorry but the last line should be:

echo strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', $dateTime).'<br>';

[laserlight]

You could also use [man]mktime/man, e.g.

$datetimestr = '20060126130910';

$datetime = mktime(
	substr($datetimestr, 8, 2),  //hour
	substr($datetimestr, 10, 2), //minute
	substr($datetimestr, 12, 2), //second
	substr($datetimestr, 4, 2),  //month
	substr($datetimestr, 6, 2),  //day
	substr($datetimestr, 0, 4)   //year
	);

echo strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', $datetime);

[gammaster]

I agree that`s nicer. 🙂