strtotime question

mashnote

so i'm writing an application which involves variables returned from paypal
now i want to add 24 hours to the payment date which is been returned by paypal

my problem is:

strtotime (as i read in the php manual) requires " The function expects to be given a string containing a US English date format
January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT"

but the time format i'm given from paypal is this one
14:42:14 May 02, 2006

i've searched the forum and read the manual, but i got no idea whether i can transform it to a unix timestamp with strtotime like this...

any ideas ?

Shrike

Have you tried it? strtotime() recognizes alot of date formats.

laserlight

i've searched the forum and read the manual, but i got no idea whether i can transform it to a unix timestamp with strtotime like this...

Have you considered simply testing?

mashnote

yes, of course i tested it.

i can create a timestamp (but if it's correct or not...?)
but if i want to format that timestamp into a new date format with the date() function
i get an integer which makes no sense at all.

so am i doing something wrong? or do i need to format the given date first (and how) before creating the timestamp..

$payment_date_stamp = strtotime($_POST['payment_date']);
$payment_date = date('F j, Y, g:i a', $payment_date_stamp);

thanx!

laserlight

No, what you did should be correct.

mashnote

ok, thanx 😉

so my initial date format from paypal is
01:06:03 May 04, 2006 PDT

and after the strtotime and date functions
i get

86400

no matter what time i get, this is the result after those functions..

thanx again

laserlight

no matter what time i get, this is the result after those functions..

That's rather strange. I tested with:

<?php
$datetime = "01:06:03 May 04, 2006 PDT";
echo date('F j, Y, g:i a', strtotime($datetime)); 
?>

mashnote

so i tested it in various ways.

and in the end, the problem was the name of my variable.

payment_date_stamp

this caused all the troubles. so i changed it to a set of different things to check if those variable names work, and it does like a charm

thanx laserlight for giving me the idea to just define the date myself to see if that works, and it did.