PHP function for parsing about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
Samples
strtotime('first day of this month');
strtotime('last day of this month');
strtotime('-1 month'); # current date -1 month
Questions tagged [strtotime]
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Counting number of events per week in PHP
I have a table which contains members signups and I would like to be able to start doing some charting and analysis on the data and look for signup trends etc so I would like to be able to plot a line graph which shows me how many people signed up…
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php strtotime reverse
Is there some function timetostr in php that will output today/tomorrow/next sunday/etc. from a given timestamp? So that timetostr(strtotime(x))=x
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Best way to change Twitter-API datetime's to a timestamp
The Twitter API sends created_at datetimes like this:
"created_at": "Mon Jul 25 05:51:34 +0000 2011",
What's the best way to convert them in a timestamp and my local timezone (Europe/Zurich)? With strtotime(), I get results like 2013-11-08…
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PHP strtotime() function that accepts a format?
strtotime() in PHP works great if you can provide it with a date format it understands and can convert, but for example you give it a UK date it fails to give the correct unix timestamp.
Is there any PHP function, official or unofficial, that can…
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PHP strtotime() different results of monday this week
I have a problem getting the date of monday in the current week.
echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime('monday this week'));
When I'm running the above code on my local machine (PHP 5.3) it outputs correctly '2011-03-07', but the same code on my server (PHP…
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Why does strtotime('x') return tomorrows date
I cant understand this - why does the following occur?
echo date("d-m-Y", strtotime($str));
$str = '214454'; // Produces todays date
$str = '333333'; // Produces 1-1-1970
$str = 'a' (or ANY single char) // Produces tomorrows date
$str = 'aa' (or…
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How do I fix this error in PHP: "A non well formed numeric value encountered"
Possible Duplicate:
A non well formed numeric value encountered
Why doesn't this work?
echo gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('+7 days','2035-01-01 00:00:00'));
The error I see is:
A non well formed numeric value encountered
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Determine if the store is open?
In PHP and MySQL - how to determine if the Store is Open or Close (return true or false)?
Also how to get the next opening hours if the store is closed?
Example of Opening_Hours table:
+----+---------+----------+-----------+------------+---------+
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Advancing through relative dates using strtotime()
I'm trying to use strtotime() to respond to a button click to advance -1 and +1 days (two buttons) relative to the day advanced to on the previous click.
Example:
It's the 10th of the month, I click "-1 day" button, and now the date reads as the…
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Passing a Variable in strtotime() function in PHP
Similar to this question, but there was no answer to my specific issue.
The current date is 2011-12-14, for reference in case this question is viewed in the future.
I tried this:
$maxAge = $row['maxAge']; // for example, $row['maxAge'] ==…
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PHP strtotime() "first monday february" returns second monday if february 1st is a monday
I'm working on a PHP function which calculates holidays:
function holidays($country = 1, $timespan_start = 0, $timespan_end = 0)
The holidays are returned as timestamps in an array.
Since I have to calculate dates like the first Monday of February,…
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Accurate method to add months in PHP 5.1?
Yesterday I ran into an issue with PHP's strtotime not properly adding a month. On '2011-05-31' I ran:
date('Y-m-d',strtotime( '+1 month', strtotime('now')));
Which returns '2011-07-01' when I am expecting '2011-06-30'.
MySQL doesn't have any…
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Repeating Events on the "nth" Weekday of Every Month
I've looked at at least 2 dozen topics about this and haven't really found a good answer yet, so I come to you to ask once again for answers regarding the dreaded topic of Repeating Events.
I've got Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly repeats working…
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Is string valid for use with strtotime()?
PHP has strtotime() which assumes the input given is a string that represents a valid time. Before using strtotime(), how can I verify that the string about to be given to it is in one of its valid formats?
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Why do strtotime(' ') and strtotime('.') return a timestamp?
After some messing around with strtotime() in PHP I noticed that it gives a valid timestamp back when you pass in spaces and or dots.
var_dump(strtotime(" "));
var_dump(strtotime("."));
var_dump(strtotime(". .. .. .. .... .. . ..…
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