Posted by laredotornado on 02/24/06 06:06

Thanks for this neat, concise function. In it, how would you add
"AM/PM" to the times that are not midnight?

Thanks, - Dave

ZeldorBlat wrote:
> Juliette wrote:
> > laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am retrieving results from an SQL query, one of which is a date
> > >
> > > $arrival = $row['itin_arrival_day'];
> > >
> > > I would like to write a PHP function that formats the date in the
> > > following way:
> > >
> > > If the time part of the date is of the form 2006-05-19 00:00:00 in
> > > which the time is midnight, I would like the result to be printed as
> > > "05/19/06 ---" but if the time is anything other than midnight, for
> > > example, "2006-05-21 18:00:00" I would like the printed result to be
> > > "05/21/06 6:00 PM".
> > >
> > > How can I do this? - Dave
> > >
> >
> >
> > Untested and probably not the most efficient, but should work:
> >
> > $arrival_array = explode( ' ', $arrival );
> >
> > // format the date
> > $date_array = explode( '-', $arrival_array[0] );
> > $arrival_date = $date_array[1] . '/' . $date_array[2] . '/' . (
> > $date_array[0] - 2000 );
> > unset( $date_array );
> >
> > // format the time
> > if( $arrival_array[1] === '00:00:00' ) {
> > $arrival_time = '---';
> > }
> > else {
> > $time_array = explode( ':', $arrival_array[1] );
> > if( $time_array[0] > '12' ) {
> > $arrival_time = ( $time_array[0] - 12 ) . ':' $time_array[1] . ' PM';
> > }
> > else {
> > $arrival_time = $time_array[0] . ':' $time_array[1] . ' AM';
> > }
> > unset( $time_array );
> > }
> >
> > print $arrival_date . ' ' . $arrival_time;
>
> Alternatively, try something like this:
>
> function foo($str) {
> $t = strtotime($str);
> return $t == mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m', $t), date('d', $t),
> date('Y', $t)) ? date('m/d/y ---', $t) : date('m/d/y g:i', $t);
> }

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