(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
IntlDateFormatter::parse -- datefmt_parse — Parse string to a timestamp value
Object-oriented style
Procedural style
Converts string to an incremental time value, starting at
offset and consuming as much of the input value as possible.
formatterThe formatter resource
stringstring to convert to a time
offset
Position at which to start the parsing in string (zero-based).
If no error occurs before string is consumed, offset will contain -1
otherwise it will contain the position at which parsing ended (and the error occurred).
This variable will contain the end position if the parse fails.
If offset > strlen($string), the parse fails immediately.
Timestamp of parsed value, or false if value cannot be parsed.
Example #1 OO example
<?php
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
'en_US',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'First parsed output is ' . $fmt->parse('Wednesday, December 20, 1989 4:00:00 PM PT');
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
'de-DE',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
?>Example #2 datefmt_parse() example
<?php
$fmt = datefmt_create(
'en_US',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'First parsed output is ' . datefmt_parse($fmt, 'Wednesday, December 20, 1989 4:00:00 PM PT');
$fmt = datefmt_create(
'de-DE',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'Second parsed output is ' . datefmt_parse($fmt, 'Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 1989 16:00 Uhr GMT-08:00');
?>The above example will output:
First parsed output is 630201600 Second parsed output is 630201600
Please note:
* on a 32-bit system, parse() will return float if the value gets out of integer range
* while parse() parses fractional seconds with a format like 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS', it only returns an int. This is also true when the value is returned as float, msecs remain absent in the return value.