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    date_parse_from_format

    (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

    date_parse_from_format — Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format

    Description

    date_parse_from_format(string $format, string $datetime): array

    Returns associative array with detailed info about given date/time.

    Parameters

    format

    Documentation on how the format is used, please refer to the documentation of DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(). The same rules apply.

    datetime

    String representing the date/time.

    Return Values

    Returns associative array with detailed info about given date/time.

    The returned array has keys for year, month, day, hour, minute, second, fraction, and is_localtime.

    If is_localtime is present then zone_type indicates the type of timezone. For type 1 (UTC offset) the zone, is_dst fields are added; for type 2 (abbreviation) the fields tz_abbr, is_dst are added; and for type 3 (timezone identifier) the tz_abbr, tz_id are added.

    The array includes warning_count and warnings fields. The first one indicate how many warnings there were. The keys of elements warnings array indicate the position in the given datetime where the warning occurred, with the string value describing the warning itself. An example below shows such a warning.

    The array also contains error_count and errors fields. The first one indicate how many errors were found. The keys of elements errors array indicate the position in the given datetime where the error occurred, with the string value describing the error itself. An example below shows such an error.

    Warning

    The number of array elements in the warnings and errors arrays might be less than warning_count or error_count if they occurred at the same position.

    Errors/Exceptions

    This functions throws ValueError when the datetime contains NULL-bytes.

    Changelog

    Version Description
    8.0.21, 8.1.8, 8.2.0 Now throws ValueError when NULL-bytes are passed into datetime, which previously was silently ignored.
    7.2.0 The zone element of the returned array represents seconds instead of minutes now, and its sign is inverted. For instance -120 is now 7200.

    Examples

    Example #1 date_parse_from_format() example

    <?php
    $date     = "6.1.2009 13:00+01:00";
    print_r(date_parse_from_format("j.n.Y H:iP", $date));
    ?>

    The above example will output:

    Array
(
    [year] => 2009
    [month] => 1
    [day] => 6
    [hour] => 13
    [minute] => 0
    [second] => 0
    [fraction] =>
    [warning_count] => 0
    [warnings] => Array
        (
        )

    [error_count] => 0
    [errors] => Array
        (
        )

    [is_localtime] => 1
    [zone_type] => 1
    [zone] => 3600
    [is_dst] =>
)

    Example #2 date_parse_from_format() with warnings example

    <?php
    $date     = "26 August 2022 22:30 pm";
    $parsed = date_parse_from_format("j F Y G:i a", $date);

    echo     "Warnings count: ", $parsed['warning_count'], "\n";
    foreach (    $parsed['warnings'] as $position => $message) {
    echo     "\tOn position {$position}: {$message}\n";
    }
    ?>

    The above example will output:

    Warnings count: 1
	On position 23: The parsed time was invalid

    Example #3 date_parse_from_format() with errors example

    <?php
    $date     = "26 August 2022 CEST";
    $parsed = date_parse_from_format("j F Y H:i", $date);

    echo     "Errors count: ", $parsed['error_count'], "\n";
    foreach (    $parsed['errors'] as $position => $message) {
    echo     "\tOn position {$position}: {$message}\n";
    }
    ?>

    The above example will output:

    Errors count: 3
	On position 15: A two digit hour could not be found
	On position 19: Data missing

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    User Contributed Notes 1 note

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    jp dot amarok at email dot cz
    2 months ago
    It seems that the safest way to check for errors is not by checking the number of errors, but warnings instead. See the following example where "m" and "d" are swapped and thus not correct.

    <?php
    var_dump    ( date_parse_from_format('m.d.Y', '18.10.2024') );

    OUTPUT:
    array(    12) {
    [    "year"]=>
    int(2024)
    [    "month"]=>
    int(18)
    [    "day"]=>
    int(10)
    [    "hour"]=>
    bool(false)
    [    "minute"]=>
    bool(false)
    [    "second"]=>
    bool(false)
    [    "fraction"]=>
    bool(false)
    [    "warning_count"]=>
    int(1)
    [    "warnings"]=>
    array(    1) {
    [    10]=>
    string(27) "The parsed date was invalid"
    }
    [    "error_count"]=>
    int(0)
    [    "errors"]=>
    array(    0) {
    }
    [    "is_localtime"]=>
    bool(false)
    }
    ?>

    The function simply assigns 18 to the "month" field without errors!! So simply use an if-condition and check "warning_count" to detect possible errors.
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