{"id":479,"date":"2009-08-28T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T09:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/index.php\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-08-28T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T09:55:46","slug":"tolerant-php-strtotime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2009\/08\/tolerant-php-strtotime\/","title":{"rendered":"tolerant php strtotime"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to enlarge strtotime php function to be tolerant about funny date (especially in mail header), here is a little function :<\/p>\n

function strtotime_tolerant($time)
\n{
\n$datetime_header = strtotime($time) ;
\nif ($datetime_header === false)
\n{
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(Wen, .*)\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$time = (preg_replace(‘\/(Wen,) (.*)\/’, ‘Wed, ${2}’, $time));
\n}
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(Sut, .*)\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$time = (preg_replace(‘\/(Sut,) (.*)\/’, ‘Sat, ${2}’, $time));
\n}
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(Tues, .*)\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$time = (preg_replace(‘\/(Tues,) (.*)\/’, ‘Tue, ${2}’, $time));
\n}
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (.\\d{4})\/’, $time, $matches))
\n{
\n$time = $matches[1].’ ‘.$matches[2];
\n}<\/p>\n

if (preg_match(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (\\d{4})\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$preg_time = (preg_replace(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (\\d{4})\/’, ‘${1} +${2}’, $time));
\n}
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (UT)$\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$preg_time = (preg_replace(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (UT)$\/’, ‘${1} ${2}C’, $time));
\n}
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (CEDT)$\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$preg_time = (preg_replace(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (CEDT)$\/’, ‘${1} +0200’, $time));
\n}
\nif (preg_match(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (.0060)\/’, $time))
\n{
\n$preg_time = (preg_replace(‘\/(.* \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d) (.0060)\/’, ‘${1} +0100’, $time));
\n}<\/p>\n

if(isset($preg_time))
\n{
\n$time = $preg_time;
\n}
\n}<\/p>\n

return strtotime($time);
\n}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to enlarge strtotime php function to be tolerant about funny date (especially in mail header), here is a little function : function strtotime_tolerant($time) { $datetime_header = strtotime($time) ; if ($datetime_header === false) { if (preg_match(‘\/(Wen, .*)\/’, $time)) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}