On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:10 +0300, Thodoris wrote: > > 2009/7/28 Thodoris <tgol@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> Hi gang, > >> I've been looking for a str_to_date (mysql) equivalent in PHP. I've > >> noticed that these are matching the description: > >> > >> http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php > >> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-create-from-format.php > >> > >> but I don't have PHP 5.3.0 installed in any of my systems to test it and the > >> function/method is not well documented yet. So I will have to write a > >> workaround this. > >> > >> Has anybody tried this? > >> > > > > Does strtotime() not work for you? > > > > > Well actually it doesn't basically because I need to define the date's > format. This is because strtotime will use for this date: > 7/8/2009 > the *month/day/year* format but in Greece we usually write dates in > *day/**month/year* so this is causing me trouble. > > I have written this in case there is an active database handler around: > > function db_date2mysql($date_str,$date_format="%d/%m/%Y",$dbh=null) { > if (isset($dbh)) { > $sql = "SELECT STR_TO_DATE('$date_str','$date_format') AS `date`"; > $ar = $dbh->query($sql)->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); > return $ar['date']; > } else { > return null; > } > } > > but I will need something more solid. > I've always used strtotime from the output I get from the database, and it's always worked for me, and before you ask, I live in the UK where the date formats make sense :p Thanks Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
