andy206uk — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:54:46 +0000

lol... that's what I love about PHP... there's always a function to do what you need. It's also what I hate - there are so many functions that it's really hard to remember them all!

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:15:33 +0000

A slightly more general solution is to use strptime(), that allows you to declare the date format with which to parse the input string:

<?php
$d = strptime(\"05-10-2006\", \"%d-%m-%Y\");
/*
$d =>
Array
(
    [tm_sec] => 139653648
    [tm_min] => 0
    [tm_hour] => -1074302728
    [tm_mday] => 5
    [tm_mon] => 9
    [tm_year] => 106
    [tm_wday] => 4
    [tm_yday] => 277
    [unparsed] =>
)
*/

$timestamp = mktime(0,0,0,
                    $d[tm_mon]+1, /* strptime numbers months 0-11 but mktime wants 1-12 */
                    $d[tm_mday],
                    $d[tm_year]);
?>

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:55:19 +0000

Or just use strtotime().

andy206uk — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:54:13 +0000

Here's an example for you:

<?php
//**** put all dates in an array ****//
$dates = array(\"16-11-1981\",
                \"19-11-1985\",
                \"13-12-1984\"
                );

//**** loop through dates array ****//
foreach($dates as $date) {

    //**** assign parts of date to variables ****//
    $dd = substr($date,0,2);
    $mm = substr($date,3,2);
    $yyyy = substr($date,6,4);

    //**** convert to timestamp and add to timestamps array ****//
    $timestamps[] = mktime(0,0,0,$mm,$dd,$yyyy);

}

//**** output timestamps ****//
print_r($timestamps);
?>

andy206uk — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:29:25 +0000

Oh... you would of course have to break down the original date into it's component parts. If they're all in exactly the same format it's probably easiest to do it using substr(), or you can break it into an array using explode()

andy206uk — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:27:27 +0000

Use mktime()