Thanks for the help
I'm fairly certain a fancy preg_replace could do it all at once...
(if you sit down and write it some late night, please share...)
I didn't use the exact functions you suggested, not sure what the difference
is (yet).
Here's what I ended up with, it could easily be turned into a function:
Glenn
// get date string from between square brackets
if (preg_match('/\[.*\]/',$RawLine,$M)) {
// parse date: [19/Jun/2002:00:13:13 -0600]
$tm = substr($M[0],1,26); // remove brackets
$tm = preg_replace('/\x2F|\x3A/',' ',$tm); // replace '/' and ':' with ' '
$MonthStrings = array('/Jan/','/Feb/','/Mar/','/Apr/','/May/','/Jun/',
'/Jul/','/Aug/','/Sep/','/Oct/','/Nov/','/Dec/');
$MonthNumbers = array('01','02','03','04','05','06',
'07','08','09','10','11','12');
$tm = preg_replace($MonthStrings,$MonthNumbers,$tm); // replace Month
Strings with Month Numbers
$a = sscanf($tm,%d %s %d %d %d %d
%s,$day,$mon,$year,$hour,$min,$sec,$offset);
$tm = $year.'-'.$mon.'-'.$day.' '.$hour.':'.$min.':'.$sec; // reorganize
unix date time to mySql date time
echo DateTime: .$tm.BR; // produces= DateTime: 2002-06-19 0:13:13
}
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Hmm...odd. I guess their %s (yes that was a typo) looks for a space
as a delimiter and not the specified next one.
Easiest workarounds off the cuff...
1) sscanf() to get the bulk of the data out, then regex out the %s
string.
2) eregi_replace() Jun with the numeric
3) Dump it as numeric instead of a string month name
4) eregi_replace() the /'s with spaces then sscanf() it.
'Luck
-Mike
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From: Glenn Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] String datetime to DateTime
Thanks for the help, Mike.
Trouble with sscanf...
Incidentally I changed the $s in the format string to %s, I think that
was a
typo. :-)
$str = 12/Jun/2002:01:02:26 -0600;
$newstr = sscanf($str,%d/%s/%d:%d:%d:%d
%s,$day,$mon,$year,$hour,$min,$sec,$offset);
The trouble I'm having is with the first %s. It doesn't see the next
delimiter so it puts the remaining text up to the next space into the
$mon
string.
result:
$day = 12
$mon = Jun/2002:01:02:26
other variables are empty
Looking at php help online, there was a spanish user comment that seemed
to
be the same problem. And even though I can't read spanish, it looks
like
only a work around was suggested.
I can work around this further but does anyone have a solution using
sscanf?
I'm not too clear on the acceptable syntax for the format string. Some
comments intimate that I could use regular expressions withing there,
but it
doesn't seem to work either.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Glenn
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DateTime formats are closer to what you have.
strtotime() will give you an unsigned integer(ususally long/32bit) for
the
number of seconds since the unix epoch.
Automagically from what you have to mySQL DateTime...nope...not that I
can
think of or find.
If you have the Unix timestamp in ulong format, you can use date() to
put
it in the correct format.
Obvious workaround...
MySQL retrieves and displays DATETIME values in '-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'
format.
The supported range is '1000-01-01 00:00:00' to '-12-31 23:59:59'.
$str = 12/Jun/2002:01:02:26 -0600;
$newstr = sscanf($str,%d/%s/%d:%d:%d:%d
$s,$day,$mon,$year,$hour,$min,$sec,$offset);
$newdatestr = rebuild it here
I never noticed that it didn't store the GMT offset before. heh.
'Luck
-Mike
- Original Message -
From: Glenn Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] String datetime to DateTime
Hello All!
I have a unix time stamp in string format like this:
12/Jun/2002:01:02:26 -0600
I am trying to turn that back into a mySQL DateTime value. I've
experimented with strtotime with no luck. I'm not really sure if
that's
what it's for.
I can, of course, parse the string manually to build a datetime that
MySQL
will accept, but isn't there a function that handles this?
How do -you- do this?
Thanks!
-Glenn
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