Question

I have a problem in this code:

$month = $_POST['month'];
$day = $_POST['day'];
$year = $_POST['year'];

function dateImplodeFunction($year, $month, $day){
  $array = array($year, $month, $day);
  $date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime( implode("-", $array)));
  return $date;
}

based on the code above I’m going to create a function where there are 3 inputs month, day and a year. When I input those 3 these variables will passed to this function, combine those 3 variables and use the implode function to create a format based on what date you specified. for instance let’s say if I input 10/01/1989 it will echo the display 10/01/1989.

also I need to use date function together with strtotime function (refer to the code above) for database, setting my date field into date data type.

The problem here is if I input 10-01-1989, it returns/dipslays the value of 01-01-1970 why??
I figured it out that there is a conflict between strtotime and implode function due to test. I’ve search through google but it find none. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

sorry for the bad english =P

Answer 1

You should use mktime :

function dateImplodeFunction($year, $month, $day)
{
    return date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year));
}

Documentation of mktime here