CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Hayden Sweet
Hayden Sweet

Reputation: 170

String To Time Returns False

I have a url param that looks like the following:

http://url?date=2017-01-01,2017-03-12

I am then exploding the string on the ,

$date = explode(',', $request->query('date'));

When i dump out the string its fine.

array:2 [▼
  0 => "2017-01-01"
  1 => "2017-03-12"
]

I then generate the date 

$dateOne = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date[0]));

This returns: 1970-01-01

but if do the second element of the array 

$dateOne = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date[1]));

I get a nice formatted date 2017-03-12

I am so confused how this is happening.....

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 100

Answers (1)

fmineo
fmineo

Reputation: 824

The problem is the format of your data, strtotime function consider the date format by the separator character, in your case is the dash "-". So, strtotime consider the date format d-m-y. Replace the separator with a point "." and you solve the problem.

Ref: http://php.net/manual/it/function.strtotime.php#100144

Upvotes: 2

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