I'm trying to parse following string:
Thu Oct 03 2013 07:03:41 GMT+0200 (Central Europe Standard Time)
But I'm struggling to find the corresponding format, I tried:
$date= DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d Y H:i:s eO (*)','Thu Oct 03 2013 07:03:41 GMT+0200 (Central Europe Standard Time)');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
Which results in error. Problem is, that there is no space between GMT+0200 and the brackets. Following works just fine
$date= DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d Y H:i:s e O','Thu Oct 03 2013 07:03:41 GMT +0200');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
But (obviously) I should be able to parse also the first example. So do you have any suggestion how the correct format should look like?
the error I get:
Fatal error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object in C:\....
var_dump of $date before calling $date->format:
boolean false
The problem is the format string, which should be
D M d Y H:i:s e+
I have replaced eO with just e because the input contains GMT+0200, which does not have a separator between "GMT" and the offset. I have also replaced the (*) part with +, which is the only specifier that can consume a variable amount of input (* matches one token, i.e. one word -- if there is more input afterwards the parse fails).
Note that there will still be a warning due to the use of + (use DateTime::getLastErrors to see it), but the conversion will work correctly.
You could split the incoming string. Here is one way of skinning this particular cat:-
$dateString = 'Thu Oct 03 2013 07:03:41 GMT+0200(Central Europe Standard Time)';
\DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d Y H:i:s O', explode('(', $dateString)[0]);
See http://php.net/date for more help.