Re: [PHP-DEV] Missing function. From: noor <email protected>
Date: 10/30/99

Hi,

Thank you Rasmus for replying.
Developers, can it be added to PHP in next releases?

Thanks in advance,
Noor

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> > 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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