I have 2 fields in HTML:
<input id="datum" type="date">
<input id="uhrzeit" type="time">
JavaScript:
var datumUhrzeit = new Date($("#datum").val()+","+$("#uhrzeit").val());
console.log(datumuhrzeit);
"Tue Aug 18 2015 16:45:00 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)"
How can I convert "Tue Aug 18 2015 16:45:00 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)" in PHP to a DateTime, so that I can save it to postgresql?
You can get unix timestamp from Date object as follows (see Date.prototype.getTime)
var timestamp = '@' + Math.round(datumUhrzeit.getTime()/1000);
Then when sent on server simply create new datetime object
$datumUhrzeit = new DateTime($timestamp);
If you can't use javascript to create timestamp and you get the the data from form directly you can do something like this, remember to set the timezone:
$datum = $_GET['datum'];
$uhrzeit = $_GET['uhrzeit'];
$datumUhrzeit = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $datum . ' ' . $uhrzeit, new DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin'));
Now as you have saved your date to the database and retrieved it, you can send it back
print $datumUhrzeit->format('U'); // This will print the time as unix timestamp
After that you would create your javascript date object with just the timestamp
var datumUhrzeit = new Date(timestamp * 1000); // timestamp from above
If you for some reason don't want to use unix timestamp you can print it in desired format with format method. Remember to set the timezone beforehand
$datumUhrzeit->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin'));
print $datumUhrzeit->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Because javascript doesn't work well with timezones I would advocate you to use unix timestamps when you can. This way you have less problems with timezones.
You can use this javascript function to convert the dateObject or date string to your desired format:
/**
* Formats a dateObject or date string to Y-m-d date
* Example: Converts dateObject or date string Sat Aug 19 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) TO 2017-08-19
*/
function format_date( date )
{
if (typeof date == "string")
{
date = new Date(date);
}
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = (1 + date.getMonth()).toString();
month = month.length > 1 ? month : '0' + month;
var day = date.getDate().toString();
day = day.length > 1 ? day : '0' + day;
return year+'-'+month+'-'+day;
}
var dateString = 'Tue Aug 18 2015 16:45:00 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)';
var formattedDate = format_date(dateString);//returned formatted date is 2015-08-18
Then you can pass this formatted date to your PHP code where you can use function strtotime to convert this date to your desired format. For ex:
$myFormattedDate = date('d-m-Y', strtotime($_REQUEST['formattedDate']));
You can do something like
$datumUhrzeit = 'Tue Aug 18 2015 16:45:00 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)';
$datumUhrzeit = substr($datumUhrzeit, 0, strpos($datumUhrzeit, '('));
$resultDate = date('Y-m-d h:i:s', strtotime($datumUhrzeit));
echo $resultDate;
try this one
function myFunction() {
var content = document.getElementById("datum").value+","+document.getElementById("uhrzeit").value;
console.log(content);
}
$ in strtotime(datumUhrzeit) when copying the answer from the other question, in this state the code won't work as expected. I won't edit this answer for this reason, and also because its poorly written.