I have a question regarding the date_parse_from_format()
method:
$parsed = date_parse_from_format("Y d M H:i T", '2012 28 Nov 21:00 CET');
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.
This will return an array with some date info. But is there any way to convert it to a unix timestamp?
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Answer
Johan,
Heres an exact example of how to implement mktime into your scenario:
$parsed = date_parse_from_format("Y d M H:i T", '2012 28 Nov 21:00 CET'); $new = mktime( $parsed['hour'], $parsed['minute'], $parsed['second'], $parsed['month'], $parsed['day'], $parsed['year'] ); echo $new; //returns: 1354136400
For future reference, you can use var_dump()
or print_r()
on an array to see how to access the nested values.
var_dump of $parsed
array (size=16) 'year' => int 2012 'month' => int 11 'day' => int 28 'hour' => int 21 'minute' => int 0 'second' => int 0 'fraction' => boolean false 'warning_count' => int 0 'warnings' => array (size=0) empty 'error_count' => int 0 'errors' => array (size=0) empty 'is_localtime' => boolean true 'zone_type' => int 2 'zone' => int -60 'is_dst' => boolean false 'tz_abbr' => string 'CET' (length=3)