CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpiphonedatemobile
flyersun
flyersun

Reputation: 917

Converting 7 Aug 2012 to php date format

I'm creating a mobile version of a website. On the normal version we just use a jquery date picker to select the date. I haven't added anything like this yet on the mobile version because It seemed my Iphone was smart enough to realise it was a date field and give you date scrollers.

But after I've selected the date it's coming up at 7 Aug 2012 which raises a few questions for me... is this standard? or am I going to have to code for different date formats coming from different phones?

Would it be best to use a jquery date picker? (I'm not sure this would be very tidy).

What's the best way to convert a date like this into a format that php and my database can handle. I have done a bit of looking around google but haven't found much as of yet.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 193

Answers (3)

Leonel Machava
Leonel Machava

Reputation: 1531

I don't think the date format is standard. It is very probable that it is affected by the user settings (eg. locale). Eg. if the user defines a Portuguese locale I think the date would be a little bit different.

Using jquery date picker you have the advantage of being able to specify your desired format (applying the dateFormat option). Then you could safely write a PHP script that reads the date in your defined format. You can use PHP's date() function as specified by @Bhuvan Rikka.

Upvotes: 0

Bhuvan Rikka
Bhuvan Rikka

Reputation: 2703

Try this

<?php
    $today = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('7 Aug 2012'));
    echo $today;
?>

gives 2012-08-07

You can change its output by altering Y-m-d in date()

Refer this!

Upvotes: 3

Lusitanian
Lusitanian

Reputation: 11132

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('j M Y', '7 Aug 2012'); is the most robust way to do it if you know the format. strtotime guesses which isn't necessarily a good thing, and you won't be informed (i.e. an exception won't be thrown) if the date is in a bad format.

See the manual here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php

Upvotes: 1

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