Question

I’m retrieving tweets trhough the Twitter Search API and keeping them in MySql database. The problem is this server hasn’t installed the PHP DateTime y DateTimeZone libraries (or so I was told) so this method does not work:

$datetime = new DateTime($tw_result["created_at"]);
$datetime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone($DATETIME_ZONE));
$fecha_tweet = $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

So, do you know other straight way to parse this “Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:59:50 +0000” into 2012-02-08 23:59:50 or a valid date for MySql? (other than slicing with substrings’). I tryed several ways of using gmdate() but didn’t get to it.

Thank you

Answer 1

echo gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:59:50 +0000'));

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