Extract the date from string in PHP

Question

I have the creation time in following format: Mon Mar 25 2013 15:28:21 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time) How can I use PHP to extract the date from this string?

What do you want to do with the date? – iCode May 28 '14 at 13:45 — iCode, May 28 '14 at 13:45
Have you seriously made a basic search before asking ? – BMN May 28 '14 at 13:45 — BMN, May 28 '14 at 13:45
I want the date in 2013-03-25 15:28:21 format – user1369905 May 28 '14 at 13:47 — user1369905, May 28 '14 at 13:47

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 28 '14 at 13:57

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$dateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d Y H:i:s e', 'Mon Mar 25 2013 15:28:21 GMT+0000');
$dateTime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));

echo $dateTime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Note this requires at least PHP 5.3.0, for more information see documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php

edited May 28 '14 at 13:57

Barry Staes

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answered May 28 '14 at 13:50

Mark Baker

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Thanks that's fulfils my request completely. THanks – user1369905 May 28 '14 at 13:52
@barry-staes - If people are still developing for unsupported PHP versions < 5.3.0 then it is really time for them to upgrade now – Mark Baker May 28 '14 at 14:01
No need for `->setTimezone()` since DateTime object is already set to UTC offset. – Glavić May 28 '14 at 14:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '14 at 13:48

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse.php

Example #1 A date_parse() example

<?php
print_r(date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00.5"));
?>

The above example will output:

Array
(
    [year] => 2006
    [month] => 12
    [day] => 12
    [hour] => 10
    [minute] => 0
    [second] => 0
    [fraction] => 0.5
    [warning_count] => 0
    [warnings] => Array()
    [error_count] => 0
    [errors] => Array()
    [is_localtime] => 
)

From here on, you should be able to parse Mon Mar 25 2013 15:28:21 GMT+0000. Or consider using explode(' ', $parts) to split it into a $parts[2]='25' array.

Extract the date from string in PHP

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