PHP - Strange Sort By Date And Time Problem

Hey guys,

I have got some events, and got it sorted by date, although at the moment the oldest date is showing first, and I would like to turn that around(new first old last), any simple suggestions?

Also another little question how would I turn a date row (for example 2009/5/31) into Tuesday - May 2009 or something similar, anyone can point me into the right direction?

Hello everyone,
This is my first post and i have a question that im sure is easy to answer, im a beginner in PHP and i know how to submit a form and so on into mysql, now my question is, for everything i submit i would like for it to organize by date just like www.WorldStarHipHop.com, but not sure on how to do it. Any Clue? how do i get each indivual form i submit to automatically appear with the correct date untop? and how do i make the date appear untop of each section? Thanks for your time!

ok so my problem is i need my data to be sorted by date which comes first.. how do i do it..can someone help me..if possible elaborate some codes? thxx..

so this is my program

Code: [Select]

<?
$b=$_GET['b'];
$m=$_GET['m'];
$y=$_GET['y'];

if  ($b <> '' && $m <> '' && $y <> '') {

$branch=$b;
$leavemonth=$m;
$leaveyear=$y;
}
else
{
$branch=$_POST['branch'];
$leavemonth=$_POST['leavemonth'];
$leaveyear=$_POST['leaveyear'];
}



$connection=mysql_connect("$server", "$username", "$password")
or die("Could not establish connection");
mysql_select_db($database_name, $connection)
or die ("Could not select database");


   
    $query="SELECT * from tblworkgroup";
    $result=mysql_query($query);?>


        &nbsp;&nbsp;Branch&nbsp;
        <select name="branch" >
<option value="all">ALL Branches</option>       
        <? while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { ?>       
    <option value= "<?=$row['WorkGroupID']?>" <? if ($branch==$row['WorkGroupID']){ echo 'selected'; } ?> ><?=$row['WorkGroupName']?></option>
     <? } ?>
        </select>
           </td>
          </tr>
       <br><br><br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;Month &nbsp;&nbsp;
<select name="leavemonth" >
<option value = "1" <? if ($leavemonth==1){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>January</option>
<option value = "2" <? if ($leavemonth==2){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>February</option>
<option value = "3" <? if ($leavemonth==3){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>March</option>
<option value = "4" <? if ($leavemonth==4){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>April</option>
<option value = "5" <? if ($leavemonth==5){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>May</option>
<option value = "6" <? if ($leavemonth==6){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>June</option>
<option value = "7" <? if ($leavemonth==7){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>July</option>
<option value = "8" <? if ($leavemonth==8){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>August</option>
<option value = "9" <? if ($leavemonth==9){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>September</option>
<option value = "10" <? if ($leavemonth==10){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>October</option>
<option value = "11" <? if ($leavemonth==11){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>November</option>
<option value = "12" <? if ($leavemonth==12){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>December</option>
</select>

&nbsp;&nbsp;
Year &nbsp;&nbsp;
<select name="leaveyear" >
<option value = "2010" <? if ($leaveyear==2010) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2010</option>
<option value = "2011" <? if ($leaveyear==2011) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2011</option>
<option value = "2012" <? if ($leaveyear==2012) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2012</option>
<option value = "2013" <? if ($leaveyear==2013) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2013</option>
<option value = "2014" <? if ($leaveyear==2014) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2014</option>
<option value = "2015" <? if ($leaveyear==2015) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2015</option>
<option value = "2016" <? if ($leaveyear==2016) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2016</option>
<option value = "2017" <? if ($leaveyear==2017) { echo 'selected';} ?>>2017</option>

</select>


  &nbsp;&nbsp;

<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Preview' Class="button" onclick='return validate()'>
   
   </div>

</form>


<br /><br />

<div id="box" valign="top">
                <h3>&nbsp;<strong>Leave Application Details</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp</h3>
<br><br>

                <table width="80%" align="center" >
<thead>
<tr>
<th width="700px" align="left">Name</a></th>
                           
<th width="800px" align="center"></a>Application Date</th>
                           
<th width="500x" align="right"></a>Reason</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?
/*echo "branch:".$branch.'<br />';
echo "leavemonth:".$leavemonth.'<br />';
echo "leaveyear:".$leaveyear.'<br />';*/
//--------------------------------------------------
if ($leavemonth =='' ||  $leaveyear =='' || $branch == '') {
// one value missing, so don't display
}
else
{
// start display data
$branchtracker = '';

if ($branch=='all'){
$branch = '%';
}

$rs = mysql_query( " call vwleavereport('$leavemonth', '$leaveyear', $branch, 0);");
$query="SELECT *,
MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom) as DFMonth,
MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateTo) as DTMonth,
YEAR(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom) as DFYear
FROM `tblleaveapplication`
LEFT JOIN `tblemployee`
ON tblleaveapplication.employeeid = tblemployee.id
WHERE WorkGroupID LIKE '".$branch."'
AND (
(MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom)=".$leavemonth." AND YEAR(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom)=".$leaveyear.")
OR
(MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateTo)=".$leavemonth." AND YEAR(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom)=".$leaveyear.")
)
ORDER BY WorkGroupID
";

$result = mysql_query($query);
if ((mysql_num_rows($result))>0){
?>
<FORM name="printbutton" method="post" align="left" action="report_print.php" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="leavemonth" value="<?php echo $leavemonth; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="leaveyear" value="<?php echo $leaveyear; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="branch" value="<?php echo $branch;?>">
<Input type = "Submit" Name = "Submit1" Class="button" VALUE = "Print Leave Details">
</form>
<?
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
if ($branchtracker<>$row['WorkGroupID']){
echo '<tr><td colspan=4 style="background-color: #e8e8e8; font-weight: bold;">'.$row['WorkGroupID'].'</td></tr>';
$branchtracker = $row['WorkGroupID'];
}
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'.$row['EmployeeName'].'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$row['DateFrom'].'  -  '.$row['DateTo'].'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$row['Purpose'].'</td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
}
}
?>

PHP date and time function is not showing correct time on my local system

I have the following php code

date_default_timezone_set("Africa/Lagos");

$date = date('d-m-y h:i:s');

echo "Server Time ".$date ."<br>";

echo "The time is " . date("h:i:sa")."<br>";

$current_datetime = date("Y-m-d") . ' ' . date("H:i:s", STRTOTIME(date('h:i:sa')));

echo "Current time1: ".$current_datetime . "<br>";

 

Output

Server Time 21-05-21 09:55:39
The time is 09:55:39am
Current time1: 2021-05-21 09:55:39

 

Expected Output

Server Time 21-05-21 10:55:39
The time is 10:55:39am
Current time1: 2021-05-21 10:55:3

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Edited May 21 by Ponel

Hi, i have an issue to sort gallery photos by date. Right now its sort by Value (Name).   here is the code    index.php contains :  

<div>

	<?php foreach($categories_array as $photo_category=>$photos_array){?>
    
    	<?php 
		$category_thumbnail = $gallery_url."/layout/pixel.gif";
		if(file_exists('files/'.$photo_category.'/thumbnail.jpg')){
			$category_thumbnail = $gallery_url.'/'.$photo_category.'/thumbnail.jpg';
		}
		
		$category_url = $gallery_url.'/'.$photo_category;
		?>
        
  		<span class="category_thumbnail_span" style="width:<?php echo $settings_thumbnail_width;?>px; height:<?php echo $settings_thumbnail_height+20;?>px;">
        <a class="category_thumbnail_image" href="<?php echo $category_url;?>" style="width:<?php echo $settings_thumbnail_width;?>px; height:<?php echo $settings_thumbnail_height;?>px; background-image:url('<?php echo $gallery_url;?>/layout/lens_48x48.png');" title="<?php echo htmlentities(ucwords(str_replace('-', ' ', $photo_category)));?>">
        <img src="<?php echo $category_thumbnail;?>" width="<?php echo $settings_thumbnail_width;?>" height="<?php echo $settings_thumbnail_height;?>" alt="<?php echo htmlentities(ucwords(str_replace('-', ' ', $photo_category)));?>" />
        </a>
        <a class="category_thumbnail_title" href="<?php echo $category_url;?>" title="<?php echo htmlentities(ucwords(str_replace('-', ' ', $photo_category)));?>">
        <?php echo htmlentities(str_replace('-',' ', truncate_by_letters($photo_category, 16, '..')), ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");?> (<?php echo count($photos_array);?>)
        </a>
        </span>
    

	<?php } ?>

</div>

the sort function :

ksort($categories_array);

I am retrieving data using AJAX. I would like to sort them from newest to oldest date. Currently they show from oldest to newest.

How do I do that?

<div id="output"></div>
<script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $.ajax ({
      type: 'GET',
      url: "https://3rdpartywebsite.com/api/getcustomers",
      dataType: 'json',
      success: function(data) {
       $.each(data, function(i, v) {

         var customerId 		   = v.customerId;
         var firstName 			   = v.firstName;
         var lastName  			   = v.lastName;
         var createdDateTime 	   = v.createdDateTime;

          $('#output').append('<ul class="output-ul">' + '<li>' + customerId + '</li>' + '<li>' + firstName + '</li>' + '<li>' + lastName + '</li>' +   '<li>' + createdDateTime + '</li>' + '</ul>');
       });
      }
    });
  });
</script>

 

G'day again. I've been looking up the php function on sorting, and to be totally honest I have no idea on how to implement it into my existing script which looks at a directory/sub directories and displays images.

The files are named 2010-01.jpg, 2010-02.jpg etc (so another words yyyy-mm format)
Can anybody help me? The script work perfectly otherwise, just doesn't put things into an order. Below is the code:
<? 
$dir = "images";
$text = "images.txt";
$cols = 3;
$colswidth = 33;
$fh=fopen($text, "r"); 

while(!feof($fh)) 
{ 
  $temp = explode("|", $line); 
  $title[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
  $line=fgets($fh); 
  unset($temp); 
} 

function ListFiles($dir) {

   if($dh = opendir($dir)) 
   {
        $last_cat = '';
        $files = Array();
        $inner_files = Array();
        while($file = readdir($dh)) 
        {
            if($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file[0] != '.') 
           {
                if(is_dir($dir . "/" . $file)) 
               {
                    $inner_files = ListFiles($dir . "/" . $file);
                    if(is_array($inner_files)) $files = array_merge($files, $inner_files); 
               } 
               else 
              {
                     array_push($files, $dir . "/" . $file);
               }
         }
    }
        closedir($dh);
        return $files;
    }
}

foreach (ListFiles($dir) as $key=>$file){

      if (preg_match("/.jpg/", $file)) {
                    if($last_cat != $category[$file] && $category[$file]<>"")
                    {
                           echo "<h2>$category[$file]</h2>";
                           $last_cat = $category[$file];
                    }

    if ($title[$file]<>"") { echo "<a href=\"$file\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"$title[$file]\"><img src=\"gallery-thumbs.php?file=$file\"></a> "; } else 
echo "<a href=\"$file\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img src=\"gallery-thumbs.php?file=$file\"></a> ";
} 
} 
  
?>

Hello I am using a DOMDocument to retrieve information from an XML file. The information is setup like so:

<person>
<name>John Smith</name>
<born>March 15th, 1987</born>
</person>
<person>
<name>Eric Lee</name>
<born>July 18th, 1949</born>
</person>
<person>
<name>Michael Arnold</name>
<born>April 2nd, 2003</born>
</person>

At the moment I am displaying just the names of each of these groups on the page. How would I display the names of each of these people according to when they were born? (Youngest to oldest or oldest to youngest)

I believe it has something to do with strtotime() and sort() but can someone explain or give an example?

Hello,

I'm making a imagegallery and when someone upload a new image that image has to appear as first picture of the gallery.
I'm using an array for the files, but how can I sort the files on date, newest first.?

<?php
$n = 0;
$pathToThumbs = "images/tekeningen/";
$dir = opendir( $pathToThumbs );
while (false !== ($fname = readdir($dir))){
      
      // strip the . and .. entries out
     if ($fname != '.' && $fname != '..'){
     $tekeningen[$n] = $fname;
    } echo $tekeningen[$n]."<br />"; 
     $n = $n +1;
}
   closedir( $dir );
?>


I found solutions with ksort and filemtime, but I don't understand them and/or they didn't work for me.

I have designed a simple page to get meeting room details to display on our dashboards.

I would like to filter for today's date (start date) and then sort by room name (name) if possible:

(if you believe this could be written better (the server is on php 5.4) then also please let me know:

$ch = curl_init($url); 
   
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$response = strip_tags($response);
$response = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $response));
$bookingArray = json_decode($response, true);
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();

{
foreach($bookingArray["result"]["bookings"] as $booking)
{
echo
$booking["name"] 
. " - " .  
$booking["eventStatus"]["type"]
. " - ".
substr($booking["startDate"], -20)
. " - " .
substr($booking["endDate"], -20)
. " - " .  
$booking["eventName"]
. " - ".
$booking["primaryContact"]["givenName"]
. " " .
$booking["primaryContact"]["surName"]
. "<br>";
}
}

?>

</body>
</html>

I am having a problem with PHP displaying the correct date and time. It updates as it should, but is fast by 4min and is always displaying a date in 2004. I ran a basic php script to make sure the application im using itself is not wrong. go to lunenburgledger.com/time.php

Anybody had any ideas on where to check? The system time on the Windows Server 2003 is correct. The only thing I can think of is that it was converted to a virtual machine on vmware esxi, but the system time stayed right. Any ideas?

Thanks!

OK So I've got a datepicker that sends a date in d/m/y format. My DB stores the data in Unix Timestamp Which I can convert the date to with strtotime however this does the exact date & time.

All I want is the actual day. I've spent hours trying to convert this with just the day with mixed results...

Thanks.

I have a date format that I need to insert into mysql (yyyy-mm-dd).

The format looks like this:  February 5 at 5:00pm PST

 

any ideas?

 

thanks

 

What is the best way to insert this time stamp into mysql?  This is the info I want...

Example:  Sunday, 28.1.11, 9:56

How would I also select time from the database using mysql?

I have a field set as datetime and want to compare that field to see if it is older then ten minutes. Can anyone help I am having a brain fart?