Question

I have the following problem. I have a script that gets the Airdate of TV Shows and i alter it before I save it to my database. Locally on my localhost it works perfect, but when I tried it online and uploaded it to my web server it shows a different behavior. I have no idea why it is so.

Here are some examples:

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The Data I get: Aired 1/22/12

What the outcome of my script should be: 2012-01-22

What I get online: 2022/12–

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The Data I get: Aired 8/29/11

What the outcome of my script should be: 2011-08-29

What I get online: 2029/11–

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The Data I get: Airs 2/12/12

What the outcome of my script should be: 2012-02-12

What I get online: 2012/12–

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Here is my PHP script:

if(strstr($serie['airdate'], 'Airs')) {
            $date = substr($serie['airdate'], 5);
        }

        if(strstr($serie['airdate'], 'Aired')) {
            $date = substr($serie['airdate'], 6);
        }

        $mm = strstr($date, "/", true);
        $mmStrLen = strlen($mm);
        if((strlen($mm)) == "1") {
            $mm = "0".$mm;
        }

        $dd = substr($date, $mmStrLen+1);
        $dd = strstr($dd, "/", true);
        $ddStrLen = strlen($dd);
        if((strlen($dd)) == "1") {
            $dd = "0".$dd;
        }

        $yy = substr($date, $mmStrLen+1+$ddStrLen+1);
        if((strlen($yy)) == "1") {
            $yy = "0".$yy;
        }

        $serie['date'] = "20".$yy."-".$mm."-".$dd;

$serie[‘airdate’] is the data I get and $serie[‘date’] is where the altered value should be saved.

The PHP Version I use locally is 5.3.8 and the one of my webhoster is 5.2.17. But I guess this is not the root of the problem.

Answer 1

Can’t format a comment as code, so I must write it as an answer.

Please try this on both sides

$x=explode(' ',$serie['airdate']);
if (sizeof($x)!=2) die("Error in step 1");
$x=explode('/',$x[1]);
if (sizeof($x)!=3) die("Error in step 2");
$serie['date']=sprintf("20%02d-%02d-%02d",$x[2],$x[0],$x[1]);