I'm trying to create a date from array. Is there any function that could accomplish this? What i know is i can access to fields and create date from that.
'endDate' => array(
'month' => '05',
'day' => '30',
'year' => '2017',
'hour' => '10',
'min' => '48',
'meridian' => 'pm'
)
I used DateTime::createFromFormat and vsprintf to construct a time string from the array, and came up with this:
<?php
$endDate = array(
'month' => '05',
'day' => '30',
'year' => '2017',
'hour' => '10',
'min' => '48',
'meridian' => 'pm'
);
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y h:i a', vsprintf('%s/%s/%s %s:%s %s', [
$endDate['day'],
$endDate['month'],
$endDate['year'],
$endDate['hour'],
$endDate['min'],
$endDate['meridian'],
]));
echo $date->format('d/m/Y h:i a');
Outputs (and you can tweak the format:
30/05/2017 10:48 pm
Actually you probably don't even need to use DateTime but I would suggest you do as you can then further manipulate it (add time intervals or change the format), you could probably just do:
printf('%s/%s/%s %s:%s %s', [
$endDate['day'],
$endDate['month'],
$endDate['year'],
$endDate['hour'],
$endDate['min'],
$endDate['meridian'],
]
Demo: https://eval.in/778600
'18/04/2017 04:48 pm'You can assemble your value into a value date string then create a new instance of DateTime of call strtotime.
$endtime = [
'month' => '05',
'day' => '30',
'year' => '2017',
'hour' => '10',
'min' => '48',
'meridian' => 'pm'
];
$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d h:i A", "{$endtime['year']}-{$endtime['month']}-{$endtime['day']} {$endtime['hour']}:{$endtime['min']} {$endtime['meridian']}");
$time = strtotime("{$endtime['year']}-{$endtime['month']}-{$endtime['day']} {$endtime['hour']}:{$endtime['min']} {$endtime['meridian']}");
There's no API function, which can accomplish that. You could implement your own method, in which should look like this:
/**
* Convert given array to DateTimeObject
* @param $dateArr array containing 'day', 'month', 'year', 'hour', 'min', 'meridian'
* @return DateTime object
*
* 'day' and 'month' must always be 2 numbers
* 'year' must always be 4 numbers
* 'hour' must always be 2 numbers (01-12)
* 'min' must always be 2 numbers (00-59)
* 'meridian' must always be 2 letters ('am' or 'pm')
*/
function createEndDate($dateArr) {
return DateTime::createFromFormat('dmYhia',
$dateArr['day'] .
$dateArr['month'] .
$dateArr['year'] .
$dateArr['hour'] .
$dateArr['min'] .
strtolower($dateArr['meridian']));
}
Code example:
$yourArr => array(
'month' => '05',
'day' => '30',
'year' => '2017',
'hour' => '10',
'min' => '48',
'meridian' => 'pm'
)
$endDate = createEndDate($yourArr);
// see http://php.net/manual/de/class.datetime.php for docs
echo $endDate->format('u');
