Date array element to PHP array variable

Question

I had datepicker element in HTML code ( multiple datepicker ) from for loop (data from database)

It display fine and let user choose different dates for different product. on submit, assign these dates into php variable through post.

But the element remains string not dates. How to change string to date in php?

<td colspan=2>
    <input type="text" 
           name="expirydate[]" 
           id="expirydate<? echo $SNO;?>" 
           autocomplete="off"  
           class="expirydate" 
           value="<? $DateToday=date('Y-m-d');
                     $ShowDate1 = explode("-", $DateToday);
                     $ShowDate2 = "$ShowDate1[2]/$ShowDate1[1]/$ShowDate1[0]";
                     echo $ShowDate2; ?>"
    />
</td>

$(function(){
        $('.expirydate').datepicker({ minDate: 0 }); 
});

$expirydate = $_POST["expirydate"];

for ($x=0; $x<=$TotalCount-1; $x++)
    {
    $expirydate1 = $expirydate[$x];
    $n1 = explode("/", $expirydate1);
    echo $n1[0] . "--" . $n1[1] . "--" . $n1[2] . "<br>";
    $n2 = "$n1[2]-$n1[1]-$n1[0]";
    $n22 = date_create($n2);
    $n3 = date_format($n22,"Y/m/d H:i:s");
}

$expirydate is an array and it gives dates as string....27/11/2019,28/11/2019,29/11/2019 likewise — himanshoo
– himanshoo, Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 8:22
What are you planning to do with the declared but not accessed $n3 variable in your script? — mickmackusa
– mickmackusa ♦, Commented Nov 2, 2024 at 6:50

marcell · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-27 08:18:38Z

1

According your code above $ShowDate2 is in the format of d/m/Y. Using DateTime::createFromFormat you can parse the date string into a DateTime object.

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '27/11/2019');

If you want it formatted just use the format method on it: $date->format('Y-m-d').

If your $expirydate is an array of dates in the mentioned d/m/Y format, you can do the following:

$expirydate = [ '27/11/2019', '26/11/2019', '25/11/2019'];
$dates = array_map(function($date) {
    return DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $date);
}, $expirydate);

edited Nov 27, 2019 at 8:18

answered Nov 27, 2019 at 8:03

marcell

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2 Comments

himanshoo Over a year ago

$expirydate is an array but of string type. it takes dates as string

marcell Over a year ago

@himanshoo then you can use the snippet above in order to parse the date strings into datetime object, the resulting $dates is an array of datetime objects.

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