Date Helper

I added my own little function to CI's "Date" helper file that assists with quick formatting of date strings, particularly those returned from a db table. Feel free to use it, modify it, add your own format strings, whatever.

Simple usage: include the date helper file as you normally would, then pass a date to setDate() along with a format (currently 'short', 'long,' or 'notime'):

[code] $this->include->helper('date');

$date = "2009-06-15": $shortdate = setDate($date, 'short'); # returns '06 / 15 / 2009 - 9:32AM' $longdate = setDate($date, 'long'); # returns 'June 15, 2009 - 9:32AM' $notime = setDate($date, 'notime'); # returns '06 / 15 / 2009' [/code]

Here's the snippet:

[code] /**

• More simplified date stuff

• by Bob Sawyer / Pixels and Code

• @access public

• @param string

• @param integer

• @return integer */
  if ( ! function_exists('setDate')) { function setDate($datestr = '',$format = 'long') { if ($datestr == '') return '--';

   $time = strtotime($datestr);
   switch ($format) {
       case 'short': $fmt = 'm / d / Y - g:iA'; break;
       case 'long': $fmt = 'F j, Y - g:iA'; break;
       case 'notime': $fmt = 'm / d / Y'; break;
   }
   $newdate = date($fmt,$time);
   return $newdate;
  

  } } [/code]