Example
Parse a date/time string that was formatted using strftime().
<?php
$format=“%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S”;
$strf=strftime($format);
echo(“$strf”);
print_r(strptime($strf,$format));
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Definition and Usage
The strptime() function parses a date/time string formatted by strftime().
Note: This function is not available on Windows platforms!
Syntax
Parameter Values
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Parameter
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Description
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date
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Required. The string to parse, typically generated by strftime().
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format
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Required. Specifies the format of the date string using format codes, such as:
- %a – Abbreviated weekday name
- %A – Full weekday name
- %b – Abbreviated month name
- %B – Full month name
- %c – Preferred date and time representation
- %C – Century number (year divided by 100, range 00 to 99)
- %d – Day of the month (01 to 31)
- %D – Same as %m/%d/%y
- %e – Day of the month (1 to 31)
- %g – Year without the century (like %G)
- %G – 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V)
- %h – Same as %b
- %H – Hour in 24-hour format (00 to 23)
- %I – Hour in 12-hour format (01 to 12)
- %j – Day of the year (001 to 366)
- %m – Month (01 to 12)
- %M – Minute
- %n – Newline character
- %p – AM or PM based on the time
- %r – Time in a.m. and p.m. notation
- %R – Time in 24-hour notation
- %S – Second
- %t – Tab character
- %T – Current time, equivalent to %H:%M:%S
- %u – Weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1 (Warning: On Sun Solaris, Sunday=1)
- %U – Week number of the year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
- %V – ISO 8601 week number of the year (01 to 53), where week 1 is the first week with at least 4 days in the current year, with Monday as the first day of the week
- %W – Week number of the year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
- %w – Day of the week as a decimal, Sunday=0
- %x – Preferred date representation without the time
- %X – Preferred time representation without the date
- %y – Year without the century (00 to 99)
- %Y – Year including the century
- %Z or %z – Time zone or name or abbreviation
- %% – A literal % character
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Technical Details
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Return Value:
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This function returns an array with the parsed date on success, or FALSE on failure. The keys in the array are:
- [tm_sec] – Seconds (0-61)
- [tm_min] – Minutes (0-59)
- [tm_hour] – Hour (0-23)
- [tm_mday] – Day of the month (1-31)
- [tm_mon] – Months since January (0-11)
- [tm_year] – Years since 1900
- [tm_wday] – Days since Sunday (0-6)
- [tm_yday] – Days since January 1 (0-365)
- [unparsed] – The portion of the date that was not recognized by the format, if any
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PHP Version:
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Available since PHP 5.1+
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