PHP Manual: Parse string to a timestamp value

Description

Object-oriented style

public intfloatfalse IntlDateFormatter::parse(string $string, int &$offset = null)

Procedural style

intfloatfalse datefmt_parse(IntlDateFormatter $formatter, string $string, int &$offset = null)

Converts string to an incremental time value, starting at offset and consuming as much of the input value as possible.

Parameters

formatter: The formatter resource
string: string to convert to a time
offset: Position at which to start the parsing in string (zero-based). If no error occurs before string is consumed, offset will contain -1 otherwise it will contain the position at which parsing ended (and the error occurred). This variable will contain the end position if the parse fails. If offset > strlen($string), the parse fails immediately.

Return Values

Timestamp of parsed value, or false if value cannot be parsed.

Examples

Example #1 OO example

<?php
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
    'en_US',
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    'America/Los_Angeles',
    IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'First parsed output is ' . $fmt->parse('Wednesday, December 20, 1989 4:00:00 PM PT');
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
    'de-DE',
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    'America/Los_Angeles',
    IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
?>

Example #2 datefmt_parse example

<?php
$fmt = datefmt_create(
    'en_US',
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    'America/Los_Angeles',
    IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'First parsed output is ' . datefmt_parse($fmt, 'Wednesday, December 20, 1989 4:00:00 PM PT');
$fmt = datefmt_create(
    'de-DE',
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    'America/Los_Angeles',
    IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'Second parsed output is ' . datefmt_parse($fmt, 'Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 1989 16:00 Uhr GMT-08:00');
?>

The above example will output:

First parsed output is 630201600
Second parsed output is 630201600

IntlDateFormatter::parse

datefmt_parse

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