string to date conversion

[Anon]

Hi,
Is it possible to convert a string into date type. I need this for comparison. Is there any function for that ?.
thanks
maha

[aleczapka]

here you go...

    //display datetime from mysql format
    function mysql_timestamp_to_time($dates)
    {
            return mktime( intval(substr($dates,8,2)), intval(substr($dates,10,2)) , intval(substr($dates,12,2)), intval(substr($dates,4,2)), intval(substr($dates,6,2)), intval(substr($dates,0,4)) );
    }

    //and back
    function time_to_mysql_timestamp($ts)
    {
            $d=getdate($ts);

            $yr=$d["year"];
            $mo=$d["mon"];
            $da=$d["mday"];
            $hr=$d["hours"];
            $mi=$d["minutes"];
            $se=$d["seconds"];

            return sprintf("%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",$yr,$mo,$da,$hr,$mi,$se);
    }

[stephanie]

Here's what I use :

<?

function convert_date ($date_to_convert,$pattern_date){
$year= substr($date_to_convert, 0,4);
$month= substr($date_to_convert, 5,2);
$day= substr($date_to_convert, -2);
$newdate = date ("$pattern_date", mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day,$year));
return $newdate;
};

$today = "2001-05-15";

print "<P><b>Date converted</b> : " . convert_date ($today, "l dS of F Y");

?>

[Anon]

This one didn't work for me. Instead of converting, it gives me a big number...

989869343

Any ideas?