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Pascal Klein
Pascal Klein

Reputation: 24903

FullCalendar: Convert date format in PHP

http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/ I want to create an event on my server when the select function is called.

This is my code:

select: function(start, end, allDay) {
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "/account/availability",
            data: {action: "create", start: start, end: start},
            success: function(id) {
                calendar.fullCalendar('renderEvent',{
                    title: "My Event",
                    start: start,
                    end: end,
                    allDay: true,
                    id: id
                });
            }
        });
    }

The problem is, that the dates of start and end are in a weired format, like this "Thu Jan 09 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)". How can I convert that format into a php, so that I can save these events easily into my database?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4586

Answers (3)

prime
prime

Reputation: 15574

Hi I had the same kind of problem but in javaScript. But I used the fullCalander built-in function to that. 

var dd = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(date,"yyyy-MM-dd");

Check my SO question here.

Upvotes: 1

Henrique C.
Henrique C.

Reputation: 978

You can do it like so using fullcalendar convert date function 

select: function(start, end, allDay) {

    //$.fullCalendar.formatDate( date, formatString [, options ] ) -> String
    // Notice that i used the variable assign to calendar var
    // var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({ .....

    var startDate = calendar.formatDate( start, "yyyy-MM-dd"); 
    var endDate = calendar.formatDate( end, "yyyy-MM-dd");

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/account/availability",
        data: {action: "create", start: start, end: start},
        success: function(id) {
            calendar.fullCalendar('renderEvent',{
                title: "My Event",
                start: start,
                end: end,
                allDay: true,
                id: id
            });
        }
    });
}

Upvotes: 0

Jorge Faianca
Jorge Faianca

Reputation: 791

Just use strtotime, some times strtotime will not work in strings with some locations like this one, so make sure you clean your values, in this example i used explode. 

$date = 'Thu Jan 09 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)';

    $time = strtotime(current(explode("(",$date)));

echo Date('Y / M / d', $time);

Working example here: example

Upvotes: 1

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