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Ethan H
Ethan H

Reputation: 625

Variable and mktime() not working

I have the following code:

$search = '3,39,49,5,5,2012';
$search = mktime($search);
echo $search;

That just outputs the current timestamp, not the one for the date specified. However if I do the following:

$search = mktime(3,39,49,5,5,2012);
echo $search;

It outputs the correct timestamp, 1336203589. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1698

Answers (3)

Kescha Skywalker
Kescha Skywalker

Reputation: 489

mktime expects an array of time values, so you have just to split your array with explode oder preg_split

$search = '3,39,49,5,5,2012';
$t = explode(',', $search);
$search = mktime($t[0], $t[1], $t[2], $t[3], $t[4], $t[5]);

Upvotes: 1

stewe
stewe

Reputation: 42642

Try this:

$search = '3,39,49,5,5,2012';
$search = call_user_func_array('mktime',explode(',', $search));
echo $search;

Demo: http://codepad.viper-7.com/lxTJbO

Upvotes: 4

Rohan Prabhu
Rohan Prabhu

Reputation: 7302

That is because you need to specify a list of integers to mktime. You are passing a string to it (which for your understanding is a list, but not so for the php interpretor). You need to convert it to such a list:

$search = '3,39,49,5,5,2012';
$search = mktime(explode(',', $search));
echo $search;

Upvotes: 1

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