[PHP] date(), strtotime(), Wed, Dec 31, 1969 ??

[ROBERT MCPEAK]

Running PHP3 on a Linux box and I've got trouble with date().

Here's the code:

$blah=2002-05-02;
$thedate = date(D, M d, Y, strtotime($blah)); 
$echo $thedate;


Why is $thedate resolving to Wed, Dec 31, 1969.

Thanks!

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Re: [PHP] date(), strtotime(), Wed, Dec 31, 1969 ??

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

Because your strtotime() call is returning 0.  Replace the '-' with '/'
and I bet it would work.

-Rasmus

On Fri, 3 May 2002, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote:

 Running PHP3 on a Linux box and I've got trouble with date().

 Here's the code:

 $blah=2002-05-02;
 $thedate = date(D, M d, Y, strtotime($blah));
 $echo $thedate;


 Why is $thedate resolving to Wed, Dec 31, 1969.

 Thanks!

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Re: [PHP] date(), strtotime(), Wed, Dec 31, 1969 ??

[Stuart Dallas]

On 3 May 2002 at 12:04, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote:
 $blah=2002-05-02;
 $thedate = date(D, M d, Y, strtotime($blah));   
 $echo $thedate;

$blah will = 1995. Try putting quotes around the date...

$blah = 2002-05-02;

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Re: [PHP] date(), strtotime(), Wed, Dec 31, 1969 ??

[Philip Olson]

Hi Robert-

You may want to spend a little more time 
with basic PHP tutorials, see:

  http://www.php.net/links

To answer your question, the problem is 
with variable/string use, not any PHP 
functions.  $blah in particular.

Use quotes around strings:

  $blah = '2002-05-02';

Read about strings:

  http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
  http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php

As you are basically doing this:

  $blah = 2002 - 5 - 2; // 1995

Anyway, also consider:

  echo $thedate;

Although the behavoir of strtotime(1995) does seem 
a little odd, in later versions of PHP it does try 
to do something but not sure exactly what ... yet.
I'm assuming it returns -1 for you, in PHP3.

Regards,
Philip Olson



On Fri, 3 May 2002, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote:

 Running PHP3 on a Linux box and I've got trouble with date().
 
 Here's the code:
 
 $blah=2002-05-02;
 $thedate = date(D, M d, Y, strtotime($blah));   
 $echo $thedate;
 
 
 Why is $thedate resolving to Wed, Dec 31, 1969.
 
 Thanks!
 
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