mktime() SOLVED with thanks in the final post

[niche]

is there a function that turns 2012-03-19 20:41:28 into 28,41,20,19,03,2012 so mktime() can be applied? Else, the only way I can think of is exploding the timestamp into its parts.

[astralaaron]

that was my first thought as well, exploding EDIT: I did this to get my brain going..just woke up I don't know if it is the best way or not but it works

<?phpfunction alterDateTime($string){$parts = explode(' ',$string);$date = $parts[0];$time = $parts[1];$time_parts = explode(':',$time);$date_parts = explode('-',$date);$new_string = "";for($i=sizeOf($time_parts)-1; $i >= 0; $i--) $new_string .= $time_parts[$i] . ',';for($i=sizeOf($date_parts)-1; $i >= 0; $i--) $new_string .= ($i < 1) ? $date_parts[$i] : ($date_parts[$i] . ',') ;return $new_string;}$dateTimeString = '2012-03-19 20:41:28';echo $dateTimeString . '<br />';$test = alterDateTime($dateTimeString);echo $test;?>

[niche]

Nice work astralaaron! Thank-you. Though do you know why mktime() throws a notice when it acts on a variable? Here's the notice I get: Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in E:\wamp\www\test_120319.php on line 21. Please notice line 22 doesn't produce a notice. code

line20:   $temp = "28,41,20,19,03,2012";line21:   echo mktime($temp) . '<br />';line22:   mktime(28,41,20,19,03,2012) . '<br />';

[niche]

Turns out mktime() won't accept a string, but will accept this: mktime($sec,$min,$hr,$day,$mo,$year). I'll just tweak astralaaron's function a little bit. Thanks again astralaaron.

[dsonesuk]

strtotime()

<?php$setdate="2012-03-19 20:41:28"; $convert = strtotime($setdate); echo date("s,i,H,d,m,Y",$convert); ?>

well it looks like this won't work either, mind you, you do hours, sec the work way round for mktime()

[niche]

Thanks dsonesuk. I tried using strtotime() with strptime(), but couldn't hack it.

$setdate="2012-03-19 20:41:28";$convert = strtotime($setdate);echo date("s,i,H,d,m,Y",$convert) . '<br/>';$year = strptime($convert,%Y);echo $year;

Produced no joy. How does strtotime() and strptime() work together to produce $year?

[dsonesuk]

??? they don't The strptime() function parses a time/date generated with strftime(). http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_strptime.asp this seems to work

$setdate="2012-03-19 20:41:28";$convert = strtotime($setdate);$hour = date("H",$convert);$min = date("i",$convert);$sec = date("s",$convert);$day = date("d",$convert);$mon = date("n",$convert);$year = date("Y", $convert);echo mktime($hour,$min,$sec,$mon,$day,$year);

[niche]

Thanks dsonesuk.