smarty/plugins/shared.make_timestamp.php
author Dan
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:26:18 -0400
changeset 50 1b4288399b1f
parent 0 c63de9eb7045
permissions -rw-r--r--
Added graphical configuration, at this point only for the grey theme but others will follow soon. (This has been nearly done for two weeks or more but was on hold due to the bugs with multithreading)

<?php
/**
 * Smarty shared plugin
 * @package Smarty
 * @subpackage plugins
 */


/**
 * Function: smarty_make_timestamp<br>
 * Purpose:  used by other smarty functions to make a timestamp
 *           from a string.
 * @author   Monte Ohrt <monte at ohrt dot com>
 * @param string
 * @return string
 */
function smarty_make_timestamp($string)
{
    if(empty($string)) {
        // use "now":
        $time = time();

    } elseif (preg_match('/^\d{14}$/', $string)) {
        // it is mysql timestamp format of YYYYMMDDHHMMSS?            
        $time = mktime(substr($string, 8, 2),substr($string, 10, 2),substr($string, 12, 2),
                       substr($string, 4, 2),substr($string, 6, 2),substr($string, 0, 4));
        
    } elseif (is_numeric($string)) {
        // it is a numeric string, we handle it as timestamp
        $time = (int)$string;
        
    } else {
        // strtotime should handle it
        $time = strtotime($string);
        if ($time == -1 || $time === false) {
            // strtotime() was not able to parse $string, use "now":
            $time = time();
        }
    }
    return $time;

}

/* vim: set expandtab: */

?>