Not Getting Proper Value From Cdatetimeparser

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I’m trying to parse date to format using CDateTimeParser but it always returning false.

See my example here:




$l = Yii::app()->getLocale();

echo date('Y-m-d', CDateTimeParser::parse('2013-06-03', $l->getDateFormat('short'))) . "\n";
2

Hi VINAY Kr. SHARMA,

Check the return value of “$i->getDateFormat(‘short’)”, and you will see a string that you didn’t expect.

And check the locale information under "framework/i18n/data".

3

My Locale is ‘en_IN’.


$i->getDateFormat('short');

returns this

dd/MM/yy

4

I see.

“dd/MM/yy” is the expected result of “getDateFormat(‘short’)” for en_in, because framework/i18n/data/en_in.php line 161 reads as the following:




  'dateFormats' => 

  array (

    'full' => 'EEEE d MMMM y',

    'long' => 'd MMMM y',

    'medium' => 'dd-MMM-y',

    'short' => 'dd/MM/yy',

  ),

And CDateTimeParser can’t parse ‘2013-06-21’ with the short date format of en_in.

5

So, what to do?

Is this a bug of framework?

6

Not a bug.

CLocale::getDateFormat is working just fine.

And CDateTimeParser too is working as expected … it must return false when the string is ‘2013-06-21’ and the format is ‘dd/MM/yy’.

Just supply the appropriate format.




echo date('Y-m-d', CDateTimeParser::parse('2013-06-03', 'yyyy-MM-dd')) . "\n";

Or, do you have to parse the date strings with various formats?

You may want to explain your needs in a broader context.