Extract the time from a timestamp 1

[kzn]

Hi, what is the best way to extract a time from a time stamp?

$date = "2004-12-12 12:30:00"

Should I use substr? or is there a better way or is there no right or wrong way?

Many thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

To use [tt]substr()[/tt] you either have to be sure the month and day will be always 0 padded or use [tt]strpos()[/tt] to find out where the separator space is.

I would prefer to use [tt]explode()[/tt] :

Interactive shell

php > $date = "2004-12-12 12:30:00";

php > echo array_pop(explode(' ', $date));
12:30:00

Feherke.
[link feherke.github.com/]

http://feherke.github.com/

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[jpadie]

or you can use date/time methods built in to php

function getTimeFromDateStamp( $datestamp ){
 return @date('H:i:s', strtotime($datastamp));
}
//the @ is to suppress the warning you might get about not setting the default time zone.  ideally you will have done this in php.ini or in prior code.

Feherke's method of string manipulation will be less processor intensive.

 

[kzn]

Thank you both for your help, I am going to use Jpadie's method. Many thanks again to both of you for your help