Covert html date value to RFC 2822

Question

I have following code,

$date = $_POST["s-date"]; // get from  form. value pass correctly. 
 $time =  "".$hour.":".$minute.":".$second.""; // ok
   echo RFC2822($date,$time);   

function RFC2822($date,$time = '00:00') { 
   $array =  list($d, $m, $y) = explode('-', $date); 
    list($h, $i, $s) = explode(':', $time);

    return date('r', mktime($h,$i,0,$m,$d,$y));
}

When I execute this script, time fragment is printed correctly, But date is displayed as Jul 08 2025 always even passing different date to the function. How to fix this.

Answer 1

You must need to check the value of this input $_POST["s-date"] it must be follow this format of date:

`DD-MM-YY`

because, you are creating list in this format (DD-MM-YY):

$array =  list($d, $m, $y) = explode('-', $date);

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UPDATE 1:

As you mentioned, you are using HTML date and HTML date format is 'YYYY-MM-DD' , now just change the list variable order as per date format.

Answer 2

From what I can gather your problem lies not with the code you've shared, but somewhere else. If I copy-paste your script and put in a fixed date on $date, it works as expected. (I've removed $time for missing vars)

$date = "27-02-2014";
echo RFC2822($date);   

function RFC2822($date,$time = '00:00:00') {
   $array =  list($d, $m, $y) = explode('-', $date);
    list($h, $i, $s) = explode(':', $time);

    return date('r', mktime($h,$i,0,$m,$d,$y));
}

Outputs

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:00:00 +0100

From this I expect that your $_POST['s-date'] var somehow gets a fixed 08-07-2025 or some other input that will make it 08 Jul 2025.