I tried the following
echo "Pre order date > $pre_order_close_date";
$pre_order_unix_time = strtotime($pre_order_close_date);
echo "Unix time is > $pre_order_unix_time";
The result is
Pre order date > 31 Jan 2016Unix time is >
I then tried the following to see if my date format is fine
echo "Pre order date > $pre_order_close_date";
$pre_order_unix_time = strtotime("31 Jan 2016");
echo "Unix time is > $pre_order_unix_time";
The result return was
Pre order date > 31 Jan 2016Unix time is > 1454198400
It seems that if I input the string directly its working fine, but if I use a variable in place of 31 Jan 2016, it does not output anything.
What could I have do wrong here.
Thanks for helping!
** How I get my pre_order_close_date **
$get_content is of this value
<p>Retail Price: USD 42<br />
<span class="il">Pre</span>–<span class="il">Order</span> Price: USD 40<br />
<span class="il">Pre</span>–<span class="il">Order</span> <span class="il">Close</span> <span class="il">Date</span>: 31 Jan 2016<br />
Release <span class="il">Date</span>: 1Q 2016</p>
$get_content_explode = explode("
",$get_content);
foreach($get_content_explode as $gce)
{
if(strstr(strtolower($gce),"close"))
{
$pre_order_close_arr = explode(":",$gce);
$pre_order_close_date = trim($pre_order_close_arr[1]);
}//end if gce
}//end foreach
$get_content contains HTML markup. Use strip_tags() to remove it.
$get_content_explode = explode("
", str_replace(' ', ' ', (strip_tags($get_content))));