PHP Tutorial - PHP strptime() Function
Definition
The strptime() function parses a time/date generated with strftime().
Syntax
PHP strptime() Function has the following format.
strptime(date,format);Parameter
| Parameter | Description |
|---|
| date | Required. The string to parse (e.g. returned from strftime()) |
| format | Required. format to use |
format constants
- %a - abbreviated weekday name
- %A - full weekday name
- %b - abbreviated month name
- %B - full month name
- %c - preferred date and time representation
- %C - century number (the year divided by 100, range 00 to 99)
- %d - day of the month (01 to 31)
- %D - same as %m/%d/%y
- %e - day of the month (1 to 31)
- %g - like %G, but without the century
- %G - 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V).
- %h - same as %b
- %H - hour, using a 24-hour clock (00 to 23)
- %I - hour, using a 12-hour clock (01 to 12)
- %j - day of the year (001 to 366)
- %m - month (01 to 12)
- %M - minute
- %n - newline character
- %p - either am or pm according to the given time value
- %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation
- %R - time in 24 hour notation
- %S - second
- %t - tab character
- %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
- %u - weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1. Warning: In Sun Solaris Sunday=1
- %U - week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
- %V - The ISO 8601 week number of the current year (01 to 53), where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week
- %W - week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
- %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday=0
- %x - preferred date representation without the time
- %X - preferred time representation without the date
- %y - year without a century (range 00 to 99)
- %Y - year including the century
- %Z or %z - time zone or name or abbreviation
- %% - a literal % character
Return
This function returns an array with the date parsed on success. FALSE on failure.
The meaning of the returning array keys are:
- [tm_sec] - seconds (0-61)
- [tm_min] - minutes (0-59)
- [tm_hour] - hour (0-23)
- [tm_mday] - day of the month (1-31)
- [tm_mon] - months since January (0-11)
- [tm_year] - years since 1900
- [tm_wday] - days since Sunday (0-6)
- [tm_yday] - days since January 1 (0-365)
- [unparsed] - the date part which was not recognized using the specified format, if any
Example
Parse a time/date generated with strftime():
<?php
$format="%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S";
$strf=strftime($format);
echo("$strf");
print_r(strptime($strf,$format));
?>