Question

I’ve run into a small programming problem. I need to do some time calculations, but as an input I only have a string – so basically I’ll need to convert this string to a date/time object in PHP. It’s the conversion I’m having trouble with.

$endtimestamp = "September 1, 2012 13:00 PM";

$doesntwork = strtotime(trim($endtimestamp));
$doesntwork2 = date_create_from_format("l, F j, Y G:i A", $endtimestamp);
$doesntwork3 = date("l, F j, Y G:i A", strtotime($endtimestamp));

To be quite honest, I have no idea why these functions don’t work as they are supposed to. SO far, other online resources have been vague at best. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

There are 2 problems here.

One is that 13:00 PM doesn’t make any sense. It’s either 1:00 PM or 13:00.

strtotime("September 1, 2012 13:00");

Also your format l, F j, Y G:i A doesn’t match your input string.

Either the format should be: F j, Y G:i A, or the string should be Saturday, September 1, 2012 13:00 PM.