DateTime::createFromFormat in PHP < 5.3.0

Question

I\'m looking for a function identical to DateTime::createFromFormat but I need it to work in an environment running a version of PHP which is older than v5.3. Basically I ne

Answer 1

You may use strptime() - it's using strftime() format. A bit different compared to date() format but does almost the same things.

function createFromFormat($strptimeFormat, $date) {
    $date = strptime($date, $strptimeFormat);
    $date['tm_year'] += 1900;
    $date['tm_mon']++;
    $timestamp = mktime($date['tm_hour'], $date['tm_min'], $date['tm_sec'], $date['tm_mon'], $date['tm_mday'], $date['tm_year']);
    return new DateTime('@'. $timestamp);
}