strtotime() giving null value

Question

I have this string

$chktodate = "15/02/2014 9 am";

And when I am doing this

$timetocheck = strtotime($chkdt);

It gives me nothing.

Is it not that the function is supposed to take the string like the format which I mentioned ie 15/02/2014 9 am.

@Glavić: I don't see how that's a duplicate of this question. In this question, the OP has a string which isn't recognized by `strtotime()` as a valid date format and hence returns `FALSE`. The OP asks how to fix this issue, while the other question discusses about working with future dates. — Amal Murali, Feb 15 '14 at 12:55
possible duplicate of [PHP: strtotime returns "nothing" of type "boolean"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19164923/php-strtotime-returns-nothing-of-type-boolean) — Ja͢ck, Mar 02 '14 at 06:42

Amal Murali · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-15T12:52:14.533

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strtotime() doesn't understand that format, and hence returns FALSE. The list of formats recognized by the parser are listed here.

$dateObj = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y g a', $chktodate);
echo $dateObj->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // 2014-02-15 09:00:00

For a list of all the available formatting options, see the documentation.

edited Feb 15 '14 at 12:52

answered Feb 15 '14 at 11:33

Amal Murali

I am getting Fatal error: Call to a member function format() – Prithviraj Mitra Feb 15 '14 at 11:48
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@PrithvirajMitra: Can you post the output of `var_dump($chktodate);`? – Amal Murali Feb 15 '14 at 12:01
`strtotime()` doesn't return `NULL` on error, but `false`. – Glavić Feb 15 '14 at 12:49
@Glavić: Somehow managed to get that wrong. Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now :) – Amal Murali Feb 15 '14 at 12:52
Fixed it.The problem was in the string initially.Thank you so much for your help.Accepted. – Prithviraj Mitra Feb 15 '14 at 13:08

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