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Chuck B.
Chuck B.

Reputation: 53

How do I create a timestamp from a separate date string and time string in PHP?

I need some assistance.

The code uses a date() function to acquire the report date, while the availability times are manually entered by users. The availability times are then compared to a static time in order to show whether the process was complete on time.

This process works perfectly if all processes run on the same day; however inaccurate reporting occurs when the process completes before midnight of the previous day. This is where I need some assistance.

I need to take the time string, which is set as H:i format, and merge it with the date string, which is set as yyyy/mm/dd. Once this is performed, I can compare it to the report date stamp to get proper reporting.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2916

Answers (3)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 913

Something like this might point you in the right direction:

<?php

$date = "2013/01/04";
$time = "16:58"; // I'm assuming you meant H:i format (not capital I as in your question).

$timestamp = strtotime($date." ".$time);

echo $timestamp; // 1357318680

?>

Upvotes: 2

SaidbakR
SaidbakR

Reputation: 13534

Concat the two strings respectively, date and time then insert the result string into strtotime()

$date = '2012/06/15';
$time = ' 10:33';
echo strtotime($date.$time)

Upvotes: 4

Your Common Sense
Your Common Sense

Reputation: 157839

concatenation operator in PHP is a dot, "."
and you can always concatenate whatever date with whatever time

$date = "2012/01/04";
$time = "22:12";
$datetime = $date." ".$time;

then you can compare the latter variable with whatever datetime of the same format

Upvotes: 3

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