date_parse Returns associative array with detailed info about given date/time &reftitle.description; arraydate_parse stringdatetime &reftitle.parameters; datetime Date/time in format accepted by DateTimeImmutable::__construct. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns array with information about the parsed date/time on success&return.falseforfailure;. &reftitle.errors; In case the date/time format has an error, the element 'errors' will contains the error messages. &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 7.2.0 The zone element of the returned array represents seconds instead of minutes now, and its sign is inverted. For instance -120 is now 7200. &reftitle.examples; A <function>date_parse</function> example ]]> &example.outputs; 2006 [month] => 12 [day] => 12 [hour] => 10 [minute] => 0 [second] => 0 [fraction] => 0.5 [warning_count] => 0 [warnings] => Array() [error_count] => 0 [errors] => Array() [is_localtime] => ) ]]> Relative formats do not influence the values parsed from absolute formats, but are parsed into the "relative" element. <function>date_parse</function> with relative formats ]]> &example.outputs; 2006 [month] => 12 [day] => 12 [hour] => 10 [minute] => 0 [second] => 0 [fraction] => 0.5 [warning_count] => 0 [warnings] => Array ( ) [error_count] => 0 [errors] => Array ( ) [is_localtime] => [relative] => Array ( [year] => 0 [month] => 0 [day] => 7 [hour] => 1 [minute] => 0 [second] => 0 ) )]]> &reftitle.seealso; checkdate getdate