On 7/28/09 3:48 PM, "Bastien Koert" <phpster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Miller, Terion<tmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok so I got the > $inDate = strtotime($results[3][$i]); > > Giving me the unix date now I am trying all the different date functions that will put it in the 0000-00-00 like sql stores it because I ran it with the unix stamp and it just stored 000000 in the db > > Hoping something like this works? > $formatDate = date('ymd', $inDate); > > > On 7/28/09 2:41 PM, "Miller, Terion" <tmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well I was going along smoothly from this morning....but it came down to > having to change the field type to date in the mySQL..so now I have this > which returns a scraped value formatted like this 0/00/00 m/d/y > > $inDate = $results[3][$i]; > > Which date function can I use to format for the db so that I will be able to > use range references...there are so many get_date, date_modify....I'm > lost... > > My full code is this: > > preg_match_all('/<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, > sans-serif">(.+)<br>(.+)<br>.+(\d+\/\d+\/\d+)\s(.+)<br>(.+)<br>.+Critical > Violations Found:.+(\d+)(.+)Noncritical Violations Found:.+(\d+)/imsSU', > utf8_encode($url), $results); > > > > for ($i=0; $i < count($results[0]); $i++) > { > $name1 = strtolower($results[1][$i]); > > $name = > ltrim($name1); > > $address = strtolower($results[2][$i]); > > $inDate > = $results[3][$i]; > > $inType = $results[4][$i]; > > $notes = > trim($results[5][$i]); > > $critical = trim($results[6][$i]); > > > echo "$noncritical <br><hr>"; > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Can't you just explode the string and put it back together in the YYYY/MM/DD format that you need? -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat Well I got it all formatted and going in the db right and now I'm able to use the BETWEEN in my sql and it works like a charm but when I echo the date for the page I need to put it back in mm/dd/yyyy order and that part is giving me problems... Not getting why since I figured I could do this again: $date = $row['inDate']; $formatDate = date('mdy', $Date); But at any rate it's nearly beer o'clock here hooray, and I'm feeling like today I have earned one or two!! Until tomorrow Terion -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php