Now I sq use the DateTime
class to convert to different time formats and I find it very useful except one feature. Before when the user try to add date but for some reason skip the time I got 00:00:00
for the time which was good enough for me. Now, with the DateTime
class if the time is not included it return error. Here is my code:
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat("d.m.Y H:i:s", $data['event_time']);
if($dt === false)
{
throw new Exception("Invalid date");
}
$formattedDate = $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Every time I try to insert date without time I get Invalid date
error. Is there a way to insert zeros on the place of the time, except getting error for this?
Thanks
Leron
Some simple pre-validation:
$date['event_time'] = trim($date['event_time']);
if (preg_match('/^\d{2}\.\d{2}\.\d{4}$/', $date['event_time'])) {
$date['event_time'] .= ' 00:00:00';
} else if (!preg_match('/^\d{2}\.\d{2}\.\d{4} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}$/', $date['event_time'])) {
die('Invalid format');
}
If you don't want to use regex I guess this should work too. If i was you I would use @deceze solution instead of this :P but for the sake of completeness, here it is:
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat("d.m.Y H:i:s", $data['event_time']);
if($dt === false)
{
$data['event_time'] = trim($data['event_time']);
$data['event_time'] .= " 00:00:00";
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat("d.m.Y H:i:s", $data['event_time')
if ($dt === false) {
throw new Exception("Invalid date");
}
}
$formattedDate = $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');