Convert Rss pubDate To ISO8601 Format

[doubleJ]

I just figured out how convert my rss pubDate into the iso8601 format that the html5 time tag requires.
I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but it works. I don't really have a grasp on mktime, yet.
Feel free to show me the better ways to do it. I'll try and figure it out.
Please forgive if this code, as pasted, doesn't work correctly. It's snipped from a much larger script that does.
Hehehe...
JJ

<?php
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement("http://$fqdn_mlm/rss/FreeDownloads.xml", null, true);
foreach($rss->xpath("channel/item") as $item) {
$seriesdate = substr($item->pubDate,0,-13);
$iso8601 = explode(" ", $seriesdate);
if ($iso8601[2] == "Jan") $iso8601[2] = "01";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Feb") $iso8601[2] = "02";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Mar") $iso8601[2] = "03";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Apr") $iso8601[2] = "04";
if ($iso8601[2] == "May") $iso8601[2] = "05";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Jun") $iso8601[2] = "06";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Jul") $iso8601[2] = "07";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Aug") $iso8601[2] = "08";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Sep") $iso8601[2] = "09";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Oct") $iso8601[2] = "10";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Nov") $iso8601[2] = "11";
if ($iso8601[2] == "Dec") $iso8601[2] = "12";
echo "<time pubDate datetime="$iso8601[3]-$iso8601[2]-$iso8601[1]">$seriesdate</time>";
}
?>

[g1smd]

Rather than 12 IF statements, I would load the data into an array and use that for the comparison.

[doubleJ]

But wouldn't you still need 12 ifs to compare $iso8601[2] and $array[0, 1, 2, 3, etc...]?
JJ

[g1smd]

Not if you use:

Array ( "Jan" => "01", "Feb" => "02", ...

[astupidname]

Why not just use date() and strtotime():

<?php
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement("http://$fqdn_mlm/rss/FreeDownloads.xml", null, true);
foreach($rss->xpath("channel/item") as $item) {
$iso8601 = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(substr($item->pubDate, 0, -13)));
echo "<time>$iso8601</time>";
}
?>

[doubleJ]

Hehehe...
Because I didn't know about that.
I figured there was some way to use date(), but I could only figure out how to do stuff with today's date (not a string of characters).
I've not used strtotime, before. I have seen it, though.
JJ

[doubleJ]

$iso8601 = date('c', strtotime($item->pubDate));

Wow, now that was the easy way to do it.
It's amazing how much difference a point in the right direction can make.
Thanks...
JJ