About an hour ago I was searching for a php function that can convert a time stamp to words. That is 2011-07-28 04:54:54 to July 28, 2011 by 4:54 AM
Maybe I didn't search hard enough, I gave up and created the function myself. This should come in handy for devs if they dont already have something like it or better.

example usage
timestamp_to_word("2011-07-28 04:54:54", "date_and_time" //this gives you July 28, 2011 by 4:54 AM
timestamp_to_word("2011-07-28 04:54:54", "date_only" //this gives you July 28, 2011
timestamp_to_word("2011-07-28 04:54:54", "time_only" //this gives you 4:54 AM

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//date to words
function timestamp_to_word($timestamp, $format){

$year = substr($timestamp, 0, 4);
$month = substr($timestamp, 5, 2);
$day = substr($timestamp, 8, 2);

$hour = substr($timestamp, 11, 2);
$minute = substr($timestamp, 14, 2);

//month in words
switch($month){
case "01";
$word_month = "January";
break;

case "02";
$word_month = "February";
break;

case "03";
$word_month = "March";
break;

case "04";
$word_month = "April";
break;

case "05";
$word_month = "May";
break;

case "06";
$word_month = "June";
break;

case "07";
$word_month = "July";
break;

case "08";
$word_month = "August";
break;

case "09";
$word_month = "September";
break;

case "10";
$word_month = "October";
break;

case "12";
$word_month = "Novermber";
break;

case "12";
$word_month = "December";
break;
}

switch($hour){
case "01";
$twelve_hour = "1";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "02";
$twelve_hour = "2";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "03";
$twelve_hour = "3";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "04";
$twelve_hour = "4";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "05";
$twelve_hour = "5";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "06";
$twelve_hour = "6";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "07";
$twelve_hour = "7";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "08";
$twelve_hour = "8";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "09";
$twelve_hour = "9";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "10";
$twelve_hour = "10";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "11";
$twelve_hour = "11";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;

case "12";
$twelve_hour = "12";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "13";
$twelve_hour = "1";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "14";
$twelve_hour = "2";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "15";
$twelve_hour = "3";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "16";
$twelve_hour = "4";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "17";
$twelve_hour = "5";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "18";
$twelve_hour = "6";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "19";
$twelve_hour = "7";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "20";
$twelve_hour = "8";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "21";
$twelve_hour = "9";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "22";
$twelve_hour = "10";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "23";
$twelve_hour = "11";
$am_pm = "PM";
break;

case "00";
$twelve_hour = "12";
$am_pm = "AM";
break;
}


$date_and_time = $word_month." ".$day.", ".$year." by ".$twelve_hour.":".$minute." ".$am_pm;
$time_only = $twelve_hour.":".$minute." ".$am_pm;
$date_only = $word_month." ".$day.", ".$year;

if($format == "date_and_time"{
echo $date_and_time;
}
elseif($format == "date_only"{
echo $date_only;
}
elseif($format == "time_only"{
echo $time_only;
}
else{
echo "Invalid format";
}


}

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That is way too long. This is shorter:


function get_date($unix_time)
{
if(is_numeric($unix_time))
{
$read_in = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unix_time);
return $read_in;
}
}

LoL when I was writing it I knew there had to be a better way of doing it but I had no choice cuz I couldn't find any. Thanks.
Will try yours.

This should be the way to get it working. First convert the time stamp to unix time stamp and back to date. The function above should be modified to contain the Unix time stamp convertion.

function getTextDate($timestamp)
{
$unix_time = strtotime($timestamp);
if(is_numeric($unix_time))
{
$read_in = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unix_time);
return $read_in;
}
}

echo getTextDate('2011-07-28 04:54:54');

Output should be:
==============================================
July 28, 2011, 4:54 am

Santa Claus! I thought it was ehm those codes that do - 5hrs 11 days et al

always try to set a default value, and set your return outside your condition.

when dealing with numeric, try to test for string > 0 ,

is_numeric('0') would return false, what do your return then ?

function get_date($unix_time)
{
$read_in = null;

if( !empty($unix_time) && is_numeric($unix_time) && $unix_time > 0 ))
{
$read_in = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unix_time);
}
return $read_in;
}

Rules of thumb (and I tweeted this yesterday to my followers):
1) When you write the same line of code more than once, know that it is time for a function
2) When your code goes very long, know that there is probably a better and more efficient way of writing it

yes ma.
I have been trying to write the propose_to_yawa() seeing as I have to be proposing repeatedly before I get answer.