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bobbiloo
bobbiloo

Reputation: 432

Extra space being added to array

My XML web service is sending an extra space in a datetime parameter of an array. Prior to April 1, the format was coming over as: 

Sun Mar 31 02:05:49 2012 GMT

...but as of April 1, it was being reformatted as:

Sun Apr  1 02:05:49 2012 GMT (Note the extra space between "Apr" and "1")

The problem is I'm exploding my array with a blankspace (" ") to take the [Month]+[Date]+[Year] but now I'm getting [Month]+[blank]+[Timestamp].

Is there an array function to count backwards so I get [timezone] [year] [timestamp] [date] etc.?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (5)

netcoder
netcoder

Reputation: 67705

If you want to parse a date, use strtotime:

$time = 'Sun Apr  1 02:05:49 2012 GMT';

$month = date('M', $ts); // Apr
$day = date('j', $ts);   // 1
$year = date('Y', $ts);  // 2012

It also ensures that the time is converted to your current timezone, which you can change like this:

date_default_timezone_set('GMT');

Another alternative is to simply use strptime, which actually has been created to parse dates, but do not take timezones in consideration:

$parsed = strptime($time, '%c');

Upvotes: 1

feeela
feeela

Reputation: 29932

As Alex Howansky suggests, you should use some date/time parsing function. You can then use date() or DateTime::format() to output the date in your desired format:

$formatA = 'Sat Mar 31 02:05:49 2012 GMT';
$formatB = 'Sun Apr  1 02:05:49 2012 GMT';

var_dump(
    new DateTime( $formatA ),
    new DateTime( $formatB ),
    date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime( $formatA ) ),
    date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime( $formatB ) )
);

Output:

object(DateTime)#1 (3) {
    ["date"]=>
        string(19) "2012-03-31 02:05:49"
    ["timezone_type"]=>
        int(2)
    ["timezone"]=>
        string(3) "GMT"
}

object(DateTime)#2 (3) {
    ["date"]=>
        string(19) "2012-04-01 02:05:49"
    ["timezone_type"]=>
        int(2)
    ["timezone"]=>
        string(3) "GMT"
}

string(19) "2012-03-31 04:05:49"

string(19) "2012-04-01 04:05:49"

Upvotes: 1

Matthemattics
Matthemattics

Reputation: 9875

You can use array_filter() to strip out all array entries that evaluate to FALSE. See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-filter.php

Although, I should note, I would probably use Darhazer's solution, myself. Just mentioning array_filter() here, as I'm not sure what the performance overhead of using preg_split() is in comparison to array_filter().

Upvotes: 0

Alex Howansky
Alex Howansky

Reputation: 53573

Why not just use strtotime() on the whole string?

Upvotes: 1

Maxim Krizhanovsky
Maxim Krizhanovsky

Reputation: 26699

You can split using regular expression

$array = preg_split('/[\s]+/', $date);

This will use one or more whitespaces as separator

Upvotes: 1

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