Convert Datetime to String Php
I Have Already Researched a Lot of Site on How Can I Convert Php Datetime Object to String. I Always See "String to Datetime" and Not "Datetime to String" Php...
I have already researched a lot of site on how can I convert PHP DateTime object to String. I always see "String to DateTime" and not "DateTime to String"
PHP DateTime can be echoed, but what i want to process my DateTime with PHP string functions.
My question is how can I make PHP dateTime Object to a string starting from this kind of code:
$dts = new DateTime(); //this returns the current date time
echo strlen($dts);
6 Answers
You can use the format method of the DateTime class:
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
$result = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
If format fails for some reason, it will return FALSE. In some applications, it might make sense to handle the failing case:
if ($result) {
echo $result;
} else { // format failed
echo "Unknown Time";
}
echo date_format($date,"Y/m/d H:i:s");
The simplest way I found is:
$date = new DateTime(); //this returns the current date time
$result = $date->format('Y-m-d-H-i-s');
echo $result . "<br>";
$krr = explode('-', $result);
$result = implode("", $krr);
echo $result;
I hope it helps.
There are some predefined formats in date_d.php to use with format like:
define ('DATE_ATOM', "Y-m-d\TH:i:sP");
define ('DATE_COOKIE', "l, d-M-y H:i:s T");
define ('DATE_ISO8601', "Y-m-d\TH:i:sO");
define ('DATE_RFC822', "D, d M y H:i:s O");
define ('DATE_RFC850', "l, d-M-y H:i:s T");
define ('DATE_RFC1036', "D, d M y H:i:s O");
define ('DATE_RFC1123', "D, d M Y H:i:s O");
define ('DATE_RFC2822', "D, d M Y H:i:s O");
define ('DATE_RFC3339', "Y-m-d\TH:i:sP");
define ('DATE_RSS', "D, d M Y H:i:s O");
define ('DATE_W3C', "Y-m-d\TH:i:sP");
Use like this:
$date = new \DateTime();
$string = $date->format(DATE_RFC2822);
Shorter way using list. And you can do what you want with each date component.
list($day,$month,$year,$hour,$min,$sec) = explode("/",date('d/m/Y/h/i/s'));
echo $month.'/'.$day.'/'.$year.' '.$hour.':'.$min.':'.$sec;
Its worked for me
$start_time = date_create_from_format('Y-m-d H:i:s', $start_time);
$current_date = new DateTime();
$diff = $start_time->diff($current_date);
$aa = (string)$diff->format('%R%a');
echo gettype($aa);
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