Re: Re: String to Date and Date to String Functions?

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:15:15 -0000, Ford, Mike <M.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 24 January 2005 19:01, Ben Edwards wrote:
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> > 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.

Different users have can have the date displayed in there local form. 
And no, I dont have to split the date up, the date() function should
be able to be used to validate the date.  I asume it returns null, or
something sensable, if the date is invalid.  Anyway as the date format
is user defined I need both functions.

> 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().

In this case it is a back end administration form as the (power) user
does not want to have to fiddle about with drop downs.  In fact they
can use / or - or . as a seperater.  The split function can handle
that.

L8r,
ben

> Cheers!
> 
> Mike
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