Display World Wide Web Consortium time/date in XML file 1

[Smoothas]

Hello,

I'm trying to display World Wide Web Consortium time and date into an xml file.
I've been trying mktime() and getdate(), but I'm not getting the format i require :-

2009-10-01T16:16:59.0156250+01:00

Can anyone help ?

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

To me that looks like ISO 8601, which is returned by [tt]date('c')[/tt]. Unless fractions of seconds are meaningful for you. In which case I am afraid, you will have to format is "manually" as [tt]date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.uP')[/tt].

Or I misunderstood your question.

Feherke.

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[Smoothas]

Hello,
Thanks for your help,

I've tried what you said but I get " c " come out instead.

I'm trying to assign it to a variable :_

$CrqDateTime = date('c');

and then call it up later when writing to a file

$xml_document .= $CrqDateTime;

Am I also planning on using it as part of the file name

$path_dir .= $urlDoc . $CrqDateTime . ".xml";

 

[feherke]

Hi

I've tried what you said but I get " c " come out instead.

Then your PHP version is older than 5. Use the second way.

Note that the [tt]date()[/tt] function as mentioned in my previous post will format the current time. Anyway, you wrote nothing about what are you trying to format...

Feherke.

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[Smoothas]

Hi Feherke,

I tried it the second way but still get a little c as the output.

I'm just trying to past the date/time etc in the format i mentioned in my original post.
The XML file i'm trying to create needs the date in this particaulr formated when past to another system.

Thanks again

 

[feherke]

Hi

I tried it the second way but still get a little c as the output.

You either not used the second [tt]date()[/tt] call I posted or not like this :

$CrqDateTime = date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.uP');

But there is no way the above to output "c".

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Smoothas]

HI,

I cut'n'pasted the above line into my php codeing and got the following output when viewing the created file :-

<CrqDateTime>c</CrqDateTime>

What could be going wrong then if you code cannot produce a c as output? Could my ISP have a version of PHP even older than 5 ?

Thanks again

 

[jaxtell]

that way works in older versions of php

cat date.php
<?php
echo date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.uP');
?>
[user@server php]# php date.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.6
Content-type: text/html

2009-10-01T14:05:47.uP

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[Smoothas]

OK, so whhy would assigning it to a variable produce c as an output instead of your results ?

 

[jaxtell]

It wouldn't. Show me your code and I'll show you the problem.

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[Smoothas]

I've seen what i've done, ther were t Date varables ( one was in the "old" format, the other in the new one ) and one was counteracting the other.

Thanks, the date ect comes out as you have showen.

How can I get it looking like :-

2009-10-01T16:16:59.0156250+01:00

instead of the "uP" at the end ?

thanks again

 

[feherke]

Hi

How can I get it looking like :-

2009-10-01T16:16:59.0156250+01:00

instead of the "uP" at the end ?

While the [tt]u[/tt] and [tt]P[/tt] format strings require even newer PHP version then [tt]c[/tt], your only way would be a workaround :

[navy]$CrqDateTime[/navy][teal]=[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]str_replace[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'%'[/i][/green][teal],[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]substr[/color][teal]([/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]microtime[/color][teal](),[/teal][purple]2[/purple][teal],[/teal][purple]7[/purple][teal]),[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]date[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'Y-m-d\TH:i:s.%O'[/i][/green][teal]));[/teal]
[navy]$CrqDateTime[/navy][teal]=[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]substr[/color][teal]([/teal][navy]$CrqDateTime[/navy][teal],[/teal][purple]0[/purple][teal],-[/teal][purple]2[/purple][teal]).[/teal][green][i]':'[/i][/green][teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]substr[/color][teal]([/teal][navy]$CrqDateTime[/navy][teal],-[/teal][purple]2[/purple][teal]);[/teal]

But personally I would just use [tt]date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s')[/tt].


Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Smoothas]

Hi,

Thank last code woeked like a charm.

Many Thanks to everyone for your help