PHP - Strtotime Function Help

when i use strtotime('+3 HOURS') everything is fine. so why cant i use strtotime('+3.5 HOURS')? what would be the proper way to do this?

So, my problem is that I need to edit my Xmas calculator to understand when this year's Xmas is over, it will automatically jump to the next one (2011-12-25).

I have no idea how to do this (noob to php...)

Thanks in advance.

Here's my code:
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<?php
$time=time();
$xmas=strtotime("2010-12-25 00:00:00");
$diff = $xmas - $time;
$days=intval($diff/86400);
$left=$diff%86400;

$hs=intval($left/3600);
$left=$left%3600;

$mins=intval($left/60);
$secs=$left%60;

echo "<font size=12 face=corbel>
Xmas is after:<br>
<strong>$days days</strong><br>
<strong>$hs hours</strong><br>
<strong>$mins mins $secs secs</strong>!
</font>";
?>

Good Day,

I'm struggling to get strtotime() to return anything.

I have the following code..
$fields['birth']['day'] = 9;
        $fields['birth']['month'] = 7;
        $fields['birth']['year'] = 1982;
        $dob = $fields['birth']['day'].' '.$fields['birth']['month'].' '.$fields['birth']['year']; // Returns: 9 7 1982
        $dob = strtotime($dob); 
        die($dob);

No matter what I do $dob isn't returning anything once strtotime() is used. I've tried matching my day/month/year 's with examples in the manual on the strtotime() page but using date() on the fields, but it still doesn't want to return anything.

I feel I'm missing something simple here.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Ace

I have this php code:

length is 15 , that is what it is coming out of the database


$length = $get['length'];

$time = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+$length days'));

But when I echo time it comes out with this result 1969-12-31

What am I doing wrong?

how do I use strtotime() instead of mktime()?

$matchTimea = mktime($mHour, $mMinute, 0, $mMonth, $mDay, $mYear);

if($matchTimea-time() < $cutoffTimea*60)
{

so i have a basic html table and down the left column i have monday,tuesday,wednesday.... sunday.

In the column 2nd from the left, i want to fill it with the current weeks dates, which is really based on the current date. So if today is Jul 29th Friday, then strtotime("last monday") would give me Jul 26th Monday... my issue is "last monday" wont work if today is monday because that will give me 19th of july... and since I technically dont know what day is today i'm not sure how to cleanly work around this without having to use some if statement... if today is monday do "last monday +7 days" or just do "now" etc...

Thanks!

hello,

what am i doing wrong?

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$starttime=$row['starttime'];
$esttime1=date( 'g:i a', strtotime(-2 hours, $starttime) );

Hi

I am new to PHP and trying to convert a date from a registration form (in the form 01/01/2011) to Y-m-d so that it can be stored in the database.

This is the code I have, pretty sure it worked before but not it has stopped working! Any ideas?

$dateformat = $_POST['dob'];
$correctformat = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($dateformat));

I have checked what $_POST['dob'] is printing and that is correct, however the $correctformat is printing 1970-01-01 everytime.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

Thank you

Little confuzzled.

I have got a bunch of listings that will be printed at the end of the page but I need to subtract a time specified in a textbox (send it to itself) on the page.

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$row['active'] = (strtotime('$row[etd]') + $rwy1 = $_POST['tmatttextfield']);Well this just converts the time in the database which is always going to be a four character number such as: 1300 for 1PM into a time and adds the textbox value to the time.

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<td width="50" bgcolor="<?php echo $bc?>"><strong><?php echo date('hi', $row['active']);?></strong></td>That just prints it all out formatting the time to only Hours and Minutes.

So just to clarify the user would put in say '10' in the textbox which would constitute 10 minutes.
The code above should then define that '10' as 10 minutes.
Define the database result, ie. 1500 as 3PM and add the 10 minutes to it so it would become 1510.

I have been getting some wierd and wonderful results whilst trying to get it to work. Mainly just 1200 though.

Harry.

Hey freaks,

running into a little issue with the use of date and strtotime....

basically I wanna present the date in the format m-d-y to the user and insert it into the DB in the Y-m-d format. 

What seems to be happening is a freaky Y-d-m format and I don't know why this is.  This code is an example that expresses my frustration.

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$nmon = strtotime("next Monday");
$next = date('m-d-Y', $nmon);
$_SESSION['REPORT_DUE'] = $next;


$nfri = strtotime("Friday");
$due = date('m-d-Y', $nfri);
$_SESSION['WEEK_ENDING'] = $due;
$ses1 = $_SESSION['WEEK_ENDING2'] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($due));
$ses2 = $_SESSION['WEEK_ENDING3'] = date('d-m-Y', strtotime($ses1));


.....output....

Quote

[WEEK_ENDING] => 09-02-2011 [WEEK_ENDING2] => 2011-02-09 [WEEK_ENDING3] => 09-02-2011 )




Thank you for any assistance.

what is the propper way to write

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$payrollweek="10";
date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+($payrollweek - 2) week $payrollend") ), "<br />";
its the ("+($payrollweek - 2)  that isnt working i think

Hi!

the following code sucessfully outputs a timestamp.

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$datealt=strtotime('2012-03-13 ,23:13:00');
The following however does not:

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$datealt=strtotime('$date ,$hours:$minutes:00');

I have checked if the variables echo out and they do..

any clues much appreciated

x

Hello wize PHP dudes. I'm a fairly advanced PHP user, but I'm confused by STRTOTIME producing different results on two identical servers.
Both running PHP Version 5.2.6-3.

- Server 1: echo date("Y",strtotime('1763-03-24 00:00:00')); returns '1763'
- Server 2: echo date("Y",strtotime('1763-03-24 00:00:00')); returns '1970'

Why do you reckon Server 1 seems not to worry about the Unix Epoch date limit, and happily computes the 1763 date? I would really like Server 2 to do the same thing, but having gone through the php.ini I can't see any difference.

I would really like Server 2 to start working with older dates. I don't want a workaround, as server 1 has been working with just strtotime for years. I can't remember doing anything different on setup. Weird!

Thanks.

Current time when testing was: 1291064453

I run the following: echo date('m/d/y', strtotime('first day', 1291064453));
Expecting: 11/1/10

What I actually get: 11/30/10

Can anyone explain this?