strtotime abbreviations

[sialater]

Hello,

I've been trudging through the net trying to find possible abbreviations to find a specific date using strtotime()

What I'm after is a way to find the first specific day of a month in the current year. For example, "The first Sunday of July".

Thanks

[ronverdonk]

I don't understand your question at all. You make the string as short as possible, containing only relevant info, and not words like 'the', 'in' etc. So this example from the PHP documentation works perfectly[php]<?php
$str="first Sunday July";
if (($timestamp = strtotime($str) ) === false) {
echo "The string ($str) is bogus";
} else {
echo "$str == " . date('l dS \o\f F Y h:i:s A', $timestamp);
}
?>[/php]results in

first Sunday July == Sunday 06th of July 2008 12:00:00 AM

Ronald

[sialater]

Apologies for the vague question, but you answered my question perfectly.

I just didn't realise that strtotime() would recognise a string like that. I guess the basis for my question lies in what the function's capabilities are.

Thank you for the help

[ronverdonk]

Glad that is what you were looking for. See you next time.

Ronald