RE: date(n/Y) strtotime

["Mark Steudel" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the strtotime notes, it says that strtotime returns -1 previous to
php5, but if I do:

If( strtotime( '1/2009') == -1 )
{
Echo 'false';
}
Else
{
Echo 'true';
}

If( strtotime( '1/2009') === -1 )
{
Echo 'false';
}
Else
{
Echo 'true';
}

If( strtotime( '1/2009') == '-1' )
{
Echo 'false';
}
Else
{
Echo 'true';
}


All of those echo true, how do I determine if strtotime has failed or
not?

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Steudel 
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:55 AM
To: Mark Steudel; PHP Mailing Lists
Subject: RE:  date(n/Y) strtotime

Ok so actually I didn't solve it. Php5, this works, but php 4.4.1 and
4.4.0 don't handle this correctly. Here's my code I'm running on each
box:

function expDate2str( $date )
{
	if( !($sDate = strtotime( $date ) ) )
	{
		echo "Invalid, blowing up date<br />";
		
		// exploded date
		$eDate = explode( '/', $date );
		
		// string date
		$sDate = strtotime( date( "Y-m-d", mktime( 0, 0, 0,
$eDate[0], 1, $eDate[1] ) ) );
	}
	else 
	{
		echo "valid<br/>";
	}
	echo "In: " .$date ."<br />Out: ". date( "Y-m-d", $sDate ) ."<br
/><br />";
}

expDate2str('1/2009');
expDate2str( date( "n/Y"));


Here are the results:

Php 5.1.2

Invalid, blowing up date
In: 1/2009
Out: 2009-01-01

Invalid, blowing up date
In: 8/2006
Out: 2006-08-01

PHP 4.4.1

Valid
In: 1/2009
Out: 2011-07-02

Valid
In: 8/2006
Out: 2012-01-27

PHP 4.4.0
Valid
In: 1/2009
Out: 2011-07-02

Valid
In: 8/2006
Out: 2012-01-27

Any work around with these types of dates on php4?

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Steudel 
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:46 AM
To: PHP Mailing Lists
Subject:  date(n/Y) strtotime

I've always been really amazed at how well strtotime works, but recently
ran into an issue where it couldn't figure out the date if it was a cc
exp date in long format, e.g. 1/2009. I was curious if anyone else has
run into this and how did they get around it, here was my solution:

function expDate2str( $date )
{
	if( !($sDate = strtotime( $date ) ) )
	{
		// exploded date
		$eDate = explode( '/', $date );
		
		// string date we hard code the day to 1
		$sDate = strtotime( date( "Y-m-d", mktime( 0, 0, 0,
$eDate[0], 1, $eDate[1] ) ) );
		
		
	}
	
	return $sDate;
}

Thanks, Mark

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