convert string to date issue

[jarvis]

Hi,

 

Sorry, me again!

 

Ok, so i've got my url:

http://www.mydomain.com/?ec3_after=2010-08-01&ec3_before=2010-08-07

 

I've then got the following code to get the values:

$afterDateParts = split("-", $_GET['ec3_after']); 
$after = $afterDateParts[2] . " " . $afterDateParts[1] . " " . $afterDateParts[0]; 
echo $after; 

which returns:

01 08 2010 (correct for this demo)

 

I've then got this to convert the above into a nicer format:

$convertMe = strtotime($after);
echo date('d-M-Y', $convertMe);

But it always returns:

01 Jan 1970

 

For the love of god, I cannot work out why. Is it really not that simple?  :'(

 

Please someone put me out my misery. I'm loosing hair by the minute! Lol

 

TIA

[tomtimms]

You got me confused on what your doing, if your just trying to get the variable from the url why not just do this?

 

$test = $_GET['ec3_after'];
$test_date = date("d-M-Y",strtotime($test));
echo $test_date;  //// displays 01-Aug-2010 

 

or if you want to make sure the date is set you would do

 

if(isset($_GET['ec3_after'])) { $test = $_GET['ec3_after']; $test_date = date("d-M-Y",strtotime($test)); echo $test_date; }

[jarvis]

thanks tomtimms that did the job nicely! Sometimes, things can be so simple, you just need the know how!

[tomtimms]

Check my changes to see check if the date is set.