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August 22, 2010

strptime for windows

Filed under: PHP and MySQL — Joe Brewer @ 2:36 pm

I was searching for a windows implementation for the php function strptime, however the best help/advice that I could find was read the source code and write it yourself. Here is my implentation that I knocked up with date_parse_from_format so you can use it on version of php less than 5.3.0

<?php
if (!function_exists('date_parse_from_format')) {
	function date_parse_from_format($format, $date) {
		$returnArray = array('hour' => 0, 'minute' => 0, 'second' => 0,
			'month' => 0, 'day' => 0, 'year' => 0);

		$dateArray = array();

		// array of valid date codes with keys for the return array as the values
		$validDateTimeCode = array('Y' => 'year', 'y' => 'year',
			'm' => 'month', 'n' => 'month',
			'd' => 'day', 'j' => 'day',
			'H' => 'hour', 'G' => 'hour',
			'i' => 'minute', 's' => 'second');

		/* create an array of valid keys for the return array
		* in the order that they appear in $format
		*/
		for ($i = 0 ; $i &lt;= strlen($format) - 1 ; $i++) {
			$char = substr($format, $i, 1);

			if (array_key_exists($char, $validDateTimeCode)) {
				$dateArray[$validDateTimeCode[$char]] = '';
			}
		}

		// create array of reg ex things for each date part
		$regExArray = array('.' => '\.', // escape the period

		// parse d first so we dont mangle the reg ex
		// day
		'd' => '(\d{2})',

		// year
		'Y' => '(\d{4})',
		'y' => '(\d{2})',

		// month
		'm' => '(\d{2})',
		'n' => '(\d{1,2})',

		// day
		'j' => '(\d{1,2})',

		// hour
		'H' => '(\d{2})',
		'G' => '(\d{1,2})',

		// minutes
		'i' => '(\d{2})',

		// seconds
		's' => '(\d{2})');

		// create a full reg ex string to parse the date with
		$regEx = str_replace(array_keys($regExArray),
			array_values($regExArray),
			$format);

		// Parse the date
		preg_match("#$regEx#", $date, $matches);

		// some checks...
		if (!is_array($matches) ||
			$matches[0] != $date ||
			sizeof($dateArray) != (sizeof($matches) - 1)) {
			return $returnArray;
		}

		// an iterator for the $matches array
		$i = 1;

		foreach ($dateArray AS $key => $value) {
			$dateArray[$key] = $matches[$i++];

			if (array_key_exists($key, $returnArray)) {
				$returnArray[$key] = $dateArray[$key];
			}
		}

		return $returnArray;
	}
}

if (!function_exists('strptime')) {
	function strptime($format, $date) {
		$dateArray = array();

		$dateArray = date_parse_from_format($format, $date);

		if (is_array($dateArray)) {
			return mktime($dateArray['hour'],
				$dateArray['minute'],
				$dateArray['second'],
				$dateArray['month'],
				$dateArray['day'],
				$dateArray['year']);
		}
		
		return 0;
	}
}
?>

August 12, 2010

Updates for Caffinated Content

Filed under: Caffinated Content,Internet,Wordpress — Tags: — Joe Brewer @ 6:40 pm

For those of you that use Caffinated Content you may be interested to heat that kansieo has decided to sell 19 copies of the source code to Caffinated Content – it was 20, but I’ve bought one.  Full details can be found here – In a nutshell kansieo is allowing 20 developers to take the source code, improve it, and update it.

What would you like to see in future releases ?  Here’s a list of mine:

  • Cron jobs for adding posts – a set number per day.
  • Cron jobs setup to add posts to different categories from specific sources.
  • Support for more sites to collect content from – maybe use a plugin architechture to add new sites.
  • The ability to poll for content to be posted from a specific folder.  A file in xml format could allow for wordpress post fields such as post date, title, content etc could be used appropriately in each post.

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