To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm On 24 January 2005 19:01, Ben Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:58:52 -0500, hitek@xxxxxxx > <hitek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > How about the strtotime() function? > > http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php > > No good, it douse not take a format string. What if I wanted to > convert the timestamp to 'DD-MM-YYY', display it on a form, validate > it, and then convert it back to a timestamp. Well, if you're going to validate it, you'll have to figure out which bits are the day, month and year -- having done that, you'll have them as three separate bits of information, so you can use mktime() on them, or glue them back together to feed to strtotime() in one of the various formats it recognizes. Seems to me a format string is pretty irrelevant in all of this. Speaking for myself personally, I would never accept a wholly textual date from a form -- I would have drop-downs for the day and month, and maybe also for the year depending on the valid range, and then it's a snap just to hand the resulting values to mktime(). Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
