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Benjamin Schroeder
Benjamin Schroeder

Reputation: 73

Combining an Time / Date Array to convert to UNIX TIME

So I have a form for creating scheduled dates. Title, Subject, bla bla... But then, I have a jQuery Date picker, that lets the user pick a date off a calendar. The jQuery date picker only formats for human dates I want to store them in UNIX TIME. So I have this Calendar, for the YEAR, MONTH, DAY... Then I have a standard drop down for the hour, 1:00 PM, 1:30 PM Etc...

The post print_r($_POST); looks like this,

[time] => Array
    (
        [0] => 5:00 PM
        [1] => 1:00 PM
        [2] => 8:00 PM
    )

[date] => Array
    (
        [0] => 2014-05-08
        [1] => 2014-04-04
        [2] => 2014-03-28
    )

I found strtotime(); for converting, human time / date into UNIX TIME, however... How do I get array [0] from time, and date to combine and be a combined string. There might be only 1 date, or 8 dates?!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 369

Answers (2)

Akshay Kalose
Akshay Kalose

Reputation: 777

$count = count($_POST['date']); // assuming both date and time have same amount of values

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
    $time = strtotime($_POST['date'][$i] . ' ' . $_POST['time'][$i]);
    // do what you want with the time here
    // Example: put all timestamps in an array.
    $timestamps[] = $time;
}

Upvotes: 0

barell
barell

Reputation: 1489

You can iterate through your POST data and combine times:

foreach($_POST['date'] as $i => $date) {
    $timestamp = strtotime($date.' '.$_POST['time'][$i]);
}

Upvotes: 0

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