如何使用html-simple-dom将月份名称转换为月份编号

Question

Hello someone can help me? to convert month name to month number. Ok, let me explain. I use CI framework, I make a web scraping, at the website have a date like this "21 NOVEMBER 2015" and I want to change the date/Posted_Date to be "2015-11-21" and store the date into my database. I don't know why when I scrap the date, the date will be 1970-01-01. here I show my Controller function.Please

public function UMKDATA()
{
    $data = array();
    $this->load->library('simple_html_dom');
    $this->load->model('Vtender_Data');
    // create HTML DOM
    $html = file_get_html("http://www.umk.edu.my/index.php/en/component/k2/item/180-tender-dan-sebutharga");
    // get title
    $strA = $html->find('.itemFullText tbody tr');

    $j = 0;   
    foreach($strA as $strB)
    {
        if($j >= 1)
        {
            $strB->innertext;
            $strC = str_get_html($strB->innertext);
            $masuk['Title'] = str_get_html($strB->find('td',1)->innertext)->find('span',0)->innertext;
            if($this->Vtender_Data->check($masuk['Title']) == 0)
            {
                $masuk['source'] = $strC->find('td',0)->innertext;
                //$masuk['Opening_Date'] = ($strC->find('td',2)->innertext);
                //$masuk['Posted_Date'] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($strC->find('td',3)->plaintext));


                $date = ($strC->find('td',3)->innertext) ;
                //$date = str_replace('', '', $date);
                $masuk['Posted_Date'] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));


                //$masuk['Posted_Date'] = $strC->find('td',3)->plaintext;
                $masuk['Document'] = str_get_html($strC->find('td',4)->innertext)->find('a',0)->href;
                $masuk['URLNAME'] = 'UMK' ;
                $this->Vtender_Data->masuk($masuk);
            }
        }
        $j++;
    }

    $this->load->view('Admin/Home/header');
    $this->load->view('update_success');
    $this->load->view('footerLogin');

} 

Answer 1

Try below code .

It will take your date and convert it to unix timestamp first and the date() function will convert it into the result that you want.

strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp

$date = "21 NOVEMBER 2015";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

Here is the doc if you want to explore more. Hope it helps you . Happy coding :)