(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)
date_parse_from_format — Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.
Format accepted by DateTime::createFromFormat().
String representing the date.
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.
Beispiel #1 date_parse_from_format() example
<?php
$date = "6.1.2009 13:00+01:00";
print_r(date_parse_from_format("j.n.Y H:iP", $date));
?>
Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt folgende Ausgabe:
Array
(
    [year] => 2009
    [month] => 1
    [day] => 6
    [hour] => 13
    [minute] => 0
    [second] => 0
    [fraction] => 
    [warning_count] => 0
    [warnings] => Array
        (
        )
    [error_count] => 0
    [errors] => Array
        (
        )
    [is_localtime] => 1
    [zone_type] => 1
    [zone] => -60
    [is_dst] => 
)
Example of rewriting function for older PHP versions:
convert
April 8, 2009, 1:12 am
to
timestamp
<?php
function date2sql($str = ""){
$month_arr = array (
    "January" => 1,
    "February" => 2,
    "March" => 3,
    "April" => 4,
    "May" => 5,
    "June" => 6,
    "July" => 7,
    "August" => 8,
    "September" => 9,
    "October" => 10,
    "November" => 11,
    "December" => 12
);
preg_match('/([a-zA-Z]{3,9}) ([0-9]{1,2}), ([0-9]{4}),
([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}) ([ap])m/',$str,$matches2);
if ($matches2[6]=="a") $hour = $matches2[4];
else $hour = $matches2[4]+12;
if ($hour==24) $hour=0;
return mktime($hour,$matches2[5],0,
$month_arr[$matches2[1]],$matches2[2],$matches2[3]);
}
    $time = date2sql("March 29, 2009, 12:12 pm");
    echo "{$time}</br>\n";
?>