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| <h1>Date Helper</h1> |
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| <p>The Date Helper file contains functions that help you work with dates.</p> |
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| <h2>Loading this Helper</h2> |
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| <p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p> |
| <code>$this->load->helper('date');</code> |
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| <p>The following functions are available:</p> |
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| <h2>now()</h2> |
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| <p>Returns the current time as a Unix timestamp, referenced either to your server's local time or GMT, based on the "time reference" |
| setting in your config file. If you do not intend to set your master time reference to GMT (which you'll typically do if you |
| run a site that lets each user set their own timezone settings) there is no benefit to using this function over PHP's time() function. |
| </p> |
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| <h2>mdate()</h2> |
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| <p>This function is identical to PHPs <a href="http://www.php.net/date">date()</a> function, except that it lets you |
| use MySQL style date codes, where each code letter is preceded with a percent sign: %Y %m %d etc.</p> |
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| <p>The benefit of doing dates this way is that you don't have to worry about escaping any characters that |
| are not date codes, as you would normally have to do with the date() function. Example:</p> |
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| <code>$datestring = "Year: %Y Month: %m Day: %d - %h:%i %a";<br /> |
| $time = time();<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo mdate($datestring, $time);</code> |
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| <p>If a timestamp is not included in the second parameter the current time will be used.</p> |
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| <h2>standard_date()</h2> |
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| <p>Lets you generate a date string in one of several standardized formats. Example:</p> |
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| <code> |
| $format = 'DATE_RFC822';<br /> |
| $time = time();<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo standard_date($format, $time); |
| </code> |
| |
| <p>The first parameter must contain the format, the second parameter must contain the date as a Unix timestamp.</p> |
| |
| <p>Supported formats:</p> |
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| <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" style="width:100%" class="tableborder"> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Constant</th> |
| <th>Description</th> |
| <th>Example</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_ATOM</td> |
| <td>Atom</td> |
| <td>2005-08-15T16:13:03+0000</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_COOKIE</td> |
| <td>HTTP Cookies</td> |
| <td>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_ISO8601</td> |
| <td>ISO-8601</td> |
| <td>2005-08-14T16:13:03+0000</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td>DATE_RFC822</td> |
| <td>RFC 822</td> |
| <td>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td>DATE_RFC850</td> |
| <td>RFC 850</td> |
| <td>Sunday, 14-Aug-05 16:13:03 UTC</td> |
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| <td>DATE_RFC1036</td> |
| <td>RFC 1036</td> |
| <td>Sunday, 14-Aug-05 16:13:03 UTC</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_RFC1123</td> |
| <td>RFC 1123</td> |
| <td>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_RFC2822</td> |
| <td>RFC 2822</td> |
| <td>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 +0000</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_RSS</td> |
| <td>RSS</td> |
| <td>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>DATE_W3C</td> |
| <td>World Wide Web Consortium</td> |
| <td>2005-08-14T16:13:03+0000</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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| <h2>local_to_gmt()</h2> |
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| <p>Takes a Unix timestamp as input and returns it as GMT. Example:</p> |
| |
| <code>$now = time();<br /> |
| <br /> |
| $gmt = local_to_gmt($now);</code> |
| |
| |
| <h2>gmt_to_local()</h2> |
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| <p>Takes a Unix timestamp (referenced to GMT) as input, and converts it to a localized timestamp based on the |
| timezone and Daylight Saving time submitted. Example:</p> |
| |
| <code> |
| $timestamp = '1140153693';<br /> |
| $timezone = 'UM8';<br /> |
| $daylight_saving = TRUE;<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo gmt_to_local($timestamp, $timezone, $daylight_saving);</code> |
| |
| <p><strong>Note:</strong> For a list of timezones see the reference at the bottom of this page.</p> |
| |
| <h2>mysql_to_unix()</h2> |
| |
| <p>Takes a MySQL Timestamp as input and returns it as Unix. Example:</p> |
| |
| <code>$mysql = '20061124092345';<br /> |
| <br /> |
| $unix = mysql_to_unix($mysql);</code> |
| |
| |
| <h2>unix_to_human()</h2> |
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| <p>Takes a Unix timestamp as input and returns it in a human readable format with this prototype:</p> |
| |
| <code>YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS AM/PM</code> |
| |
| <p>This can be useful if you need to display a date in a form field for submission.</p> |
| |
| <p>The time can be formatted with or without seconds, and it can be set to European or US format. If only |
| the timestamp is submitted it will return the time without seconds formatted for the U.S. Examples:</p> |
| |
| <code>$now = time();<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo unix_to_human($now); // U.S. time, no seconds<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo unix_to_human($now, TRUE, 'us'); // U.S. time with seconds<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo unix_to_human($now, TRUE, 'eu'); // Euro time with seconds</code> |
| |
| |
| <h2>human_to_unix()</h2> |
| |
| <p>The opposite of the above function. Takes a "human" time as input and returns it as Unix. This function is |
| useful if you accept "human" formatted dates submitted via a form. Returns FALSE (boolean) if |
| the date string passed to it is not formatted as indicated above. Example:</p> |
| |
| <code>$now = time();<br /> |
| <br /> |
| $human = unix_to_human($now);<br /> |
| <br /> |
| $unix = human_to_unix($human);</code> |
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| |
| <h2>timespan()</h2> |
| |
| <p>Formats a unix timestamp so that is appears similar to this:</p> |
| |
| <code>1 Year, 10 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 10 Hours, 16 Minutes</code> |
| |
| <p>The first parameter must contain a Unix timestamp. The second parameter must contain a |
| timestamp that is greater that the first timestamp. If the second parameter empty, the current time will be used. The most common purpose |
| for this function is to show how much time has elapsed from some point in time in the past to now. Example:</p> |
| |
| <code>$post_date = '1079621429';<br /> |
| $now = time();<br /> |
| <br /> |
| echo timespan($post_date, $now);</code> |
| |
| <p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> The text generated by this function is found in the following language file: language/<your_lang>/date_lang.php</p> |
| |
| |
| <h2>days_in_month()</h2> |
| |
| <p>Returns the number of days in a given month/year. Takes leap years into account. Example:</p> |
| <code>echo days_in_month(06, 2005);</code> |
| |
| <p>If the second parameter is empty, the current year will be used.</p> |
| <h2>timezones()</h2> |
| <p> Takes a timezone reference (for a list of valid timezones, see the "Timezone Reference" below) and returns the number of hours offset from UTC.</p> |
| <p><code>echo timezones('UM5');</code></p> |
| <p>This function is useful when used with timezone_menu(). </p> |
| <h2>timezone_menu()</h2> |
| <p>Generates a pull-down menu of timezones, like this one:</p> |
| |
| <form action="#"> |
| <select name="timezones"> |
| <option value='UM12'>(UTC - 12:00) Enitwetok, Kwajalien</option> |
| <option value='UM11'>(UTC - 11:00) Nome, Midway Island, Samoa</option> |
| <option value='UM10'>(UTC - 10:00) Hawaii</option> |
| <option value='UM9'>(UTC - 9:00) Alaska</option> |
| <option value='UM8'>(UTC - 8:00) Pacific Time</option> |
| <option value='UM7'>(UTC - 7:00) Mountain Time</option> |
| <option value='UM6'>(UTC - 6:00) Central Time, Mexico City</option> |
| <option value='UM5'>(UTC - 5:00) Eastern Time, Bogota, Lima, Quito</option> |
| <option value='UM4'>(UTC - 4:00) Atlantic Time, Caracas, La Paz</option> |
| <option value='UM25'>(UTC - 3:30) Newfoundland</option> |
| <option value='UM3'>(UTC - 3:00) Brazil, Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Falkland Is.</option> |
| <option value='UM2'>(UTC - 2:00) Mid-Atlantic, Ascention Is., St Helena</option> |
| <option value='UM1'>(UTC - 1:00) Azores, Cape Verde Islands</option> |
| <option value='UTC' selected='selected'>(UTC) Casablanca, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Lisbon, Monrovia</option> |
| <option value='UP1'>(UTC + 1:00) Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Rome</option> |
| <option value='UP2'>(UTC + 2:00) Kaliningrad, South Africa, Warsaw</option> |
| <option value='UP3'>(UTC + 3:00) Baghdad, Riyadh, Moscow, Nairobi</option> |
| <option value='UP25'>(UTC + 3:30) Tehran</option> |
| <option value='UP4'>(UTC + 4:00) Adu Dhabi, Baku, Muscat, Tbilisi</option> |
| <option value='UP35'>(UTC + 4:30) Kabul</option> |
| <option value='UP5'>(UTC + 5:00) Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent</option> |
| <option value='UP45'>(UTC + 5:30) Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi</option> |
| <option value='UP6'>(UTC + 6:00) Almaty, Colomba, Dhaka</option> |
| <option value='UP7'>(UTC + 7:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta</option> |
| <option value='UP8'>(UTC + 8:00) Beijing, Hong Kong, Perth, Singapore, Taipei</option> |
| <option value='UP9'>(UTC + 9:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Seoul, Tokyo, Yakutsk</option> |
| <option value='UP85'>(UTC + 9:30) Adelaide, Darwin</option> |
| <option value='UP10'>(UTC + 10:00) Melbourne, Papua New Guinea, Sydney, Vladivostok</option> |
| <option value='UP11'>(UTC + 11:00) Magadan, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands</option> |
| <option value='UP12'>(UTC + 12:00) Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Marshall Island</option> |
| </select> |
| </form> |
| |
| <p>This menu is useful if you run a membership site in which your users are allowed to set their local timezone value.</p> |
| |
| <p>The first parameter lets you set the "selected" state of the menu. For example, to set Pacific time as the default you will do this:</p> |
| |
| <code>echo timezone_menu('UM8');</code> |
| |
| <p>Please see the timezone reference below to see the values of this menu.</p> |
| |
| <p>The second parameter lets you set a CSS class name for the menu.</p> |
| |
| <p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> The text contained in the menu is found in the following language file: language/<your_lang>/date_lang.php</p> |
| |
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| |
| <h2>Timezone Reference</h2> |
| |
| <p>The following table indicates each timezone and its location.</p> |
| |
| <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" style="width:100%" class="tableborder"> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Time Zone</th> |
| <th>Location</th> |
| </tr><tr> |
| |
| <td class="td">UM12</td><td class="td">(UTC - 12:00) Enitwetok, Kwajalien</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM11</td><td class="td">(UTC - 11:00) Nome, Midway Island, Samoa</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM10</td><td class="td">(UTC - 10:00) Hawaii</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM9</td><td class="td">(UTC - 9:00) Alaska</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM8</td><td class="td">(UTC - 8:00) Pacific Time</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM7</td><td class="td">(UTC - 7:00) Mountain Time</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM6</td><td class="td">(UTC - 6:00) Central Time, Mexico City</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM5</td><td class="td">(UTC - 5:00) Eastern Time, Bogota, Lima, Quito</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM4</td><td class="td">(UTC - 4:00) Atlantic Time, Caracas, La Paz</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM25</td><td class="td">(UTC - 3:30) Newfoundland</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM3</td><td class="td">(UTC - 3:00) Brazil, Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Falkland Is.</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM2</td><td class="td">(UTC - 2:00) Mid-Atlantic, Ascention Is., St Helena</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UM1</td><td class="td">(UTC - 1:00) Azores, Cape Verde Islands</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UTC</td><td class="td">(UTC) Casablanca, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Lisbon, Monrovia</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP1</td><td class="td">(UTC + 1:00) Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Rome</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP2</td><td class="td">(UTC + 2:00) Kaliningrad, South Africa, Warsaw</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP3</td><td class="td">(UTC + 3:00) Baghdad, Riyadh, Moscow, Nairobi</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP25</td><td class="td">(UTC + 3:30) Tehran</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP4</td><td class="td">(UTC + 4:00) Adu Dhabi, Baku, Muscat, Tbilisi</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP35</td><td class="td">(UTC + 4:30) Kabul</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP5</td><td class="td">(UTC + 5:00) Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP45</td><td class="td">(UTC + 5:30) Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP6</td><td class="td">(UTC + 6:00) Almaty, Colomba, Dhaka</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP7</td><td class="td">(UTC + 7:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP8</td><td class="td">(UTC + 8:00) Beijing, Hong Kong, Perth, Singapore, Taipei</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP9</td><td class="td">(UTC + 9:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Seoul, Tokyo, Yakutsk</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP85</td><td class="td">(UTC + 9:30) Adelaide, Darwin</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP10</td><td class="td">(UTC + 10:00) Melbourne, Papua New Guinea, Sydney, Vladivostok</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP11</td><td class="td">(UTC + 11:00) Magadan, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands</td> |
| </tr><tr> |
| <td class="td">UP12</td><td class="td">(UTC + 12:00) Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Marshall Island</td> |
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