Date formatting issues
I am trying to write a function to format date and time for me. I have a nearly identical function that only formats the date. This function works fine. I just added some code to try and format the date with time. It should return something like "May 18, 2009 09:50 PM", but I am getting this warning:
Warning: mktime() expects parameter 6 to be long, string given in
public_html/include/functions.php on line 421
Here is the code I have:
function dateTimeFormat($dateIn)
{
$x = explode(" ",$dateIn);
$y = explode("-",$x[0]);
$z = explode(":",$x[1]);
$year = $y[0];
$month = $y[1];
$day = $y[2];
$hour = $z[0];
$min = $z[1];
$dateOut =date("F j, Y h:i A", mktime($hour, $min, 0, $month, $day, $year));
return $dateOut;
}
What he gives out is also wrong. It issues:
December 31, 1969 07:00 PM
but the timestamp is in the database
2009-05-18 05:07:39
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PHP already has an excellent function of parsing dates: strtotime()
. It returns a Unix timestamp that you can pass to date()
.
In other words, your function can be boiled down to this:
function dateTimeFormat($dateIn)
{
return date("F j, Y h:i A", strtotime($dateIn));
}
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