strtotime("2007 Jul 10") fails

[Brian Kendig]

I'm working with dates in several formats including 'yyyy MMM dd', but
strtotime doesn't recognize this format and returns FALSE.

Is there a direct way to convert times from this format into
timestamps, other than my having to whip up a simple parsing routine?

My headache is that I use strtotime in a lot of places in a lot of
files, and I'd hate to have to add a wrapper everyplace I use it. I
wish there were a way to extend strtotime's default functionality, but
I know that would involve hacking the PHP source code.

[ZeldorBlat]

On Jul 10, 1:16 pm, Brian Kendig <[e-mail]:

I'm working with dates in several formats including 'yyyy MMM dd', but
strtotime doesn't recognize this format and returns FALSE.

Because that isn't a supported date format.

>
Is there a direct way to convert times from this format into
timestamps, other than my having to whip up a simple parsing routine?

Not really -- other than turning it into a format that is recognized.

>
My headache is that I use strtotime in a lot of places in a lot of
files, and I'd hate to have to add a wrapper everyplace I use it. I
wish there were a way to extend strtotime's default functionality, but
I know that would involve hacking the PHP source code.

You should have used a wrapper everywhere to begin with. Then this
change would be trivial.

[Jack]

On Jul 10, 10:16 am, Brian Kendig <[e-mail]:

I'm working with dates in several formats including 'yyyy MMM dd', but
strtotime doesn't recognize this format and returns FALSE.

Is there a direct way to convert times from this format into
timestamps, other than my having to whip up a simple parsing routine?

My headache is that I use strtotime in a lot of places in a lot of
files, and I'd hate to have to add a wrapper everyplace I use it. I
wish there were a way to extend strtotime's default functionality, but
I know that would involve hacking the PHP source code.

as far as I know there is no direct way. so what you need to do is cut
the first 5 char ('YYYY ') and append it to the end and then call
strtotime on the new string. You don't need to do anything to the mmm
since the strtotime will recognize it.

[Brian Kendig]

On Jul 10, 3:15 pm, ZeldorBlat <[e-mail]:

On Jul 10, 1:16 pm, Brian Kendig <[e-mail]:

Is there a direct way to convert times from this format into
timestamps, other than my having to whip up a simple parsing routine?

Not really -- other than turning it into a format that is recognized.

Thanks for the tip - that's the approach I decided to take to avoid
this whole problem.

You should have used a wrapper everywhere to begin with. Then this
change would be trivial.

Well, I don't have THAT much foresight. I don't want to go using
wrappers for every built-in PHP function on the off chance that
someday I might want to extend their functionality. :)

[ZeldorBlat]

On Jul 10, 4:41 pm, Brian Kendig <[e-mail]:

>
Well, I don't have THAT much foresight. I don't want to go using
wrappers for every built-in PHP function on the off chance that
someday I might want to extend their functionality. :)

Why not?

[Jerry Stuckle]

ZeldorBlat wrote:

On Jul 10, 4:41 pm, Brian Kendig <[e-mail]:

>Well, I don't have THAT much foresight. I don't want to go using
wrappers for every built-in PHP function on the off chance that
someday I might want to extend their functionality. :)

Why not?

I agree with Brian. I don't write wrappers for PHP functions. It's a
huge waste of time - both programming and processing.

In this case I would just convert the time to something strtotime()
accepts when I get it from the form.

Or, more likely, I would already have an OO approach involved and change
the class.

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[Brian Kendig]

On Jul 11, 8:53 am, ZeldorBlat <[e-mail]:

On Jul 10, 4:41 pm, Brian Kendig <[e-mail]:

Well, I don't have THAT much foresight. I don't want to go using
wrappers for every built-in PHP function on the off chance that
someday I might want to extend their functionality. :)

Why not?

It adds overhead, it reduces readability and increases the chances for
typos (what if I made a mistake in one of my wrappers?), it's
unnecessary for the vast majority of the time, and in the rare cases
when it *would* be useful I might decide to do something differently
so I'd probably have to go edit large swaths of my code anyway.

Putting a wrapper around every built-in PHP function just in case I
might someday want to extend it is like wrapping every item in my home
in bubble wrap just in case I might someday hit my head on it.