Question

I’m trying to convert from JSON string to PHP a DOB and it works but gives me the wrong DOB.

$url = "test.js";
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($content, true);
$DOB = date('m/d/Y', preg_replace('/[^\d]/','', $json['Player'][BirthDt])/1000);

what get JSONJason is :

"BirthDt":"\/Date(-388094400000)\/"

in PHP i get this:04/19/1982 instead of 09/14/1957

any ideas???

Answer 1

Your regular expression is removing the negative sign, so it’s becoming a date after the unix epoch (Jan 1st 1970), instead of before. Try something like this:

preg_match('/Date\((-?\d+)\)/', $json['Player']['BirthDt'], $matches);
$timestamp = $matches[1];
$DOB = date('m/d/Y', $timestamp / 1000);

You can see it working in the demo.