Can't work out what's going on with dates?

dd/mm/yy -> mm/dd/yy?

[Kenton]

Hello

I'm trying to format some user input of dates.

I am using PHP 4.4.2

Running this

<?
$fred = strftime("%d/%m/%y",strtotime('11/12/07'));
echo "$fred";
?>

produces:

12/11/07

I am going nuts with this

Please help

[DrDoc]

I take it you want to use Dec 11. Well, if so -- it's best to always use ISO dates, until they are printed. Using a non-ISO date means that you have to worry about locales and other such things, which is what you are running into here. You are passing "11/12/07" ... obviously meaning "11 December, 2007" ... But, due to the server locale, it will treat it as "November 12, 2007". Using an ISO date solves this:

<?
$fred = strftime("%d/%m/%y",strtotime('2007-12-11'));
echo "$fred";
?>

OR, prior to the "strtotime" line -- use

setlocale

to modify the locale used by the script.

[Kenton]

Thanks DrDoc

(yes I did mean December)

But ... already tried setlocale
<?
setlocale (LC_TIME, 'en_GB');
$fred = strftime("%d/%m/%y",strtotime('11/12/07'));
echo "$fred";
?>

produces the same result.

Also, as this is user input, I would prefer to stick to the common dd/mm/yy format.

thanks for any help

[DrDoc]

strtotime [php.net]

The function expects to be given a string containing a US English date format...

See also Date Input Formats [gnu.org], which is what

strtotime

follows.

[DrDoc]

Since it's user input -- perhaps you should use dropdowns to select days/months?

[Kenton]

Thanks. Will use dropdowns.