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Mr Griever
Mr Griever

Reputation: 4023

DateTime::createFromFormat not working as expected

Running PHP 5.3.28

I have a particular date getting returned as a string that strtotime is choking on, so I thought to try out DateTime::createFromFormat(), however despite best efforts getting errors.

<?php

$freshdate = '09/07/2015 (Mon)';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat("m/d/Y (D)", $freshdate);
if (!$date) {
  var_dump('error', DateTime::getLastErrors());
}

Result is:

array (size=4)
  'warning_count' => int 0
  'warnings' => array (size=0)
  'error_count' => int 2
  'errors' => array (size=2)
      12 => string 'A textual day could not be found' (length=32)
      16 => string 'Data missing' (length=12)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1310

Answers (4)

Andrzej Budzanowski
Andrzej Budzanowski

Reputation: 1022

This is bug in PHP#65554:

createFromFormat fails when in the format D or l is followed by separators that are not space or comma.

How to fix? Change your format or upgrade your PHP version.

Upvotes: 4

Mark Baker
Mark Baker

Reputation: 212522

From the changelog for 5.4.20: - Fixed bug #65554 (createFromFormat broken when weekday name is followed by some delimiters)

So the problem is the trailing ) after the day name

You can workround it by trimming that trailing ):

$freshdate = '09/07/2015 (Mon)';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat("m/d/Y (D", rtrim($freshdate, ')'));
if (!$date) {
  var_dump('error', DateTime::getLastErrors());
}

Upvotes: 3

ashish singh
ashish singh

Reputation: 119

Use this-

<?php

$freshdate = '09/07/2015 (Mon)';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat("m/d/Y (D)", $freshdate);
echo $date->format('m/d/Y (D)');

Upvotes: 2

Nibb
Nibb

Reputation: 2025

This should work, convert it to a unix timestamp:

$freshdate = explode('/', '09/07/2015 (Mon)');
$year = explode(' ', $freshdate[2]);
$unix_date = mktime(0,0,0,$freshdate[0],$freshdate[1],$year[0]);

Might not be the best answer, but its definitely AN answer :)

Upvotes: 0

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