Question

I am using Zend framework for the site which sends email for the voucher order with a pdf attachment in the email. Everything work fine with the site but the Expiry date sending to the pdf alone have problems. I have passed the expiry date parameter from my database table values but it always takes the some default value of 1-1-1970. I have used the following set of codes for the pdf attachment with the email.

    $endDate = new Zend_Date();
    $endDate->set($data['voucher']['enddate']);
    $endDate= $endDate->toString('dd/MM/YYYY');

    //build PDF voucher attachment
    $at = $this->generateVoucherPDFAttachement($recipientName, $customerName, $data['order']['msg'], $order['vouchercode'], $endDate);

     $this->_helper->Mail(array(
            '[e-mail]' => 'Smile@iPress',
            '[e-mail]' => 'Info@iPress',
                ), 'New voucher order #' . $data['order']['id'], $mailMsg, $at);

Answer 1

Which is the format of $data['voucher']['enddate']? You should take care of it when building a Zend_Date object, otherwise it will use an heuristic based on current locale to parse the date given.

Usually if the date comes from a db field (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd) you can build a Zend_Date in this way:

$date = new Zend_Date('2011-08-24', 'yyyy-MM-dd');
print_r($date->get(Zend_Date::DATE_FULL));