Re: [PHP-DEV] Missing function. From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 10/30/99

> Hello all,
>
> I think I found a missing function in PHP's Date/Time functions. The
> date()'s syntax is as follows:
>
> string date(string format, int timestamp);
>
> What is missing is a function to revert date() behavior as follows:
>
> timestamp datestamp(string format, string date);
>
> Behavior is as follows:
>
> // Format current date.
> $string = date( "m-d-Y" );
> .
> .
> .
> // Get time stamp from $string.
> $time = datestamp( "m-d-Y", $string );
>
> Is it possible to add this function in the next release of PHP, also in
> PHP4 and PHP3 as I am still using version 3.0.9.
>
> This will help in doing generic code to handle date and time functions
> against SQL databases.

This is not a trivial thing, but there is code in PHP 3/4 intended to
solve this, but I am not sure of its current state. See the parsedate.c
file in both trees.

-Rasmus 

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