MySQL DATETIME Helper

To enhance CI's date helper with MySQL DATETIME / DATE functionality just create date_helper.php in your application’s helpers directory, paste the original date_helper.php in (to keep its functionality) and then add the following code:

/**

• Convert MySQL's DATE (YYYY-MM-DD) or DATETIME (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) to timestamp

• Returns the timestamp equivalent of a given DATE/DATETIME

• @todo add regex to validate given datetime

• @author Clemens Kofler clemens.kofler@chello.at

• @access public

• @return integer */ function mysqldatetime_to_timestamp($datetime = "") { // function is only applicable for valid MySQL DATETIME (19 characters) and DATE (10 characters) $l = strlen($datetime); if(!($l == 10 || $l == 19)) return 0;

  // $date = $datetime; $hours = 0; $minutes = 0; $seconds = 0;

  // DATETIME only if($l == 19) { list($date, $time) = explode(" ", $datetime); list($hours, $minutes, $seconds) = explode(":", $time); }

  list($year, $month, $day) = explode("-", $date);

  return mktime($hours, $minutes, $seconds, $month, $day, $year); }

/**

• Convert MySQL's DATE (YYYY-MM-DD) or DATETIME (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) to date using given format string
• Returns the date (format according to given string) of a given DATE/DATETIME
• @author Clemens Kofler clemens.kofler@chello.at
• @access public
• @return integer */ function mysqldatetime_to_date($datetime = "", $format = "d.m.Y, H:i:s") { return date($format, mysqldatetime_to_timestamp($datetime)); }

/**

• Convert timestamp to MySQL's DATE or DATETIME (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss)

• Returns the DATE or DATETIME equivalent of a given timestamp

• @author Clemens Kofler clemens.kofler@chello.at

• @access public

• @return integer */ function timestamp_to_mysqldatetime($timestamp = "", $datetime = true) { if(empty($timestamp) || !is_numeric($timestamp)) $timestamp = time();

  return ($datetime) ? date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $timestamp) : date("Y-m-d", $timestamp); }