Question

When a user searches post by date, I need to pass the date as a search parameter through the url.

Like : http://siteurl/post/index/created:03/15/2012

As you can see the date format is mm/dd/yy which is creating an issue, as a result I’m getting only 03 as a value in the request.

Edited : Some code from my params i get in controller.

Array
(

[controller] => posts

[action] => index

[named] => Array
    (
        [created] => 03
    )

[pass] => Array
    (
        [0] => 15
        [1] => 2012
    )

[plugin] => 
[form] => Array
    (
    )

[url] => Array
    (
        [url] => /posts/index/created:03/15/2012
    )

[isAjax] => 
)

Is there a way that a user can select date in mm/dd/yy format and then I can change to another format after submitting the form?

Answer 1

You can convert the date into time stamp and pass using:

$date = '03/15/2012';

$timestamp = strtotime($date);

pass this to the url.

Convert back to ‘mm/dd/yy’ using:

echo date('m/d/Y',$timestamp);