[RESOLVED] Place leading zero in date string

[dcjones]

Hi all,

I have a data string which contains a date in the format of "4/10/2011", the string comes from an external source so what I get is what I get.

When the day part of the date is one charactor I need to put a leading zero but I am getting nowhere fast. The code I am using is:

$FlightDateTemp = "4/10/2011";
$dateparts = explode("/", $FlightDateTemp);
	$dayVar = $dateparts[0];
	if(strlen($dayVar < 2)){ 
		$dateDay = "0";
		$FlightDateTemp = $dateDay."".$dateparts[0]."-".$dateparts[1]."-".$dateparts[0];
	}else{
		$datetemp = $dateparts[2]."-".$dateparts[1]."-".$dateparts[0];
		$FlightDateTemp = $datetemp;
	}
print $FlightDateTemp;

This fails, can anyone see what I am doing wrong, or is there a better way of coding the problem.

[johanafm]

The (first) error lies here

dcjones;10988720 wrote:

strlen($dayVar < 2)

Hint: you want to compare the string length to something, rather than take the string length of a comparison.

But perhaps this is easier

# If I understand you correctly, your date is in the format d/mm/yyyy
$FlightDateTemp = "4/10/2011";
$parts = explode('/', $FlightDateTemp);
$time = mktime(0, 0, 0, $parts[1], $parts[0], $parts[2]);
# This uses 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day
$newFormat = date('Y-m-d', $time);
echo $newFormat;

And if your initial date is actually on the form m/dd/yyyy, it's even easier

# m/dd/yyy
$FlightDateTemp = "4/10/2011";
$time = strtotime($FlightDateTemp);
$newFormat = date('Y-m-d', $time);
echo $newFormat;

[dcjones]

Hi johanafm

strlen($dayVar < 2)

How stupid of me.

You code work perfectly, many thanks.