date_parse - PHP code example

PHP Functions for Dates and Times

When writing a web application, you will often need to work with dates and times. This might be for displaying information to users, calculating age or adding or subtracting dates. Luckily, PHP has a set of built-in date functions that make it easy to do all this and more.

The php function date_parse is used to parse a given string and return an array of all the parts that make up the string, such as the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. It also takes into account any timezone info that may be present in the string, and can determine whether or not the date is in daylight saving time or not.

Date_parse accepts a string and then breaks it up into an array of all the elements that make up the date, including the year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, and locale. The function can also return a list of all the possible date formats that could be used to format the date.

The php function strtotime is similar to date_parse, but it works on a more technical level. It can turn a date into a timestamp, which is a number of seconds that has been calculated since January 1, 1970. The timestamp can then be converted to a human-readable date using the date() function. It also supports a variety of different date formats, as well as formatting for specific time zones.

date_parse example

// Unpack settings.     $this->langcode = !empty($settings['langcode']) ? $settings['langcode'] : NULL;

    // Massage the input values as necessary.     $prepared_time = $this->prepareTime($time);
    $prepared_timezone = $this->prepareTimezone($timezone);

    try {
      $this->errors = [];
      if (!empty($prepared_time)) {
        $test = date_parse($prepared_time);
        if (!empty($test['errors'])) {
          $this->errors = $test['errors'];
        }
      }

      if (empty($this->errors)) {
        $this->dateTimeObject = new \DateTime($prepared_time, $prepared_timezone);
      }
    }
    catch (\Exception $e) {
      $this->errors[] = $e->getMessage();
    }

    /** * {@inheritdoc} */
    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $optimizerService = $this->getContainer()->get('shopware_media.cdn_optimizer_service');
        $mediaService = $this->getContainer()->get(\Shopware\Bundle\MediaBundle\MediaServiceInterface::class);

        if ($input->getOption('modified')) {
            $errors = date_parse($input->getOption('modified'))['errors'];
            if ($errors) {
                $output->writeln("<error>You have provided an invalid date string! Please only use a valid date string that conists of 'd-m-Y' e.g '10-05-2022'. You can also provide 'd-m-Y h:i:s' e.g '10-05-2022 10:15:00'. If you want to enhance the date even further you can consult the PHP documentation regarding valid formats https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php' </error>");

                return 1;
            }
        }

        if ($this->hasRunnableOptimizer() === false) {
            $output->writeln('<error>No runnable optimizer found. Consider installing one of the following optimizers.</error>');

    protected function formatSearchValue($value, array $field, $expression = null)
    {
        switch ($field['type']) {
            case 'boolean':
                break;
            case 'date':
            case 'datetime':
                // validates the date value. If the value is no date value, return                 $date = date_parse($value);

                if ($date['error_count'] > 0 || !checkdate((int) $date['month'], (int) $date['day'], (int) $date['year'])) {
                    $value = '%' . $value . '%';
                    break;
                }
                $date = new DateTime($value);
                $value = $date->format('Y-m-d');
                if (!$this->isSearchExpression($expression)) {
                    return $value;
                }