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<refentry xml:id="function.date-parse" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>date_parse</refname>
  <refpurpose>Returns associative array with detailed info about given date</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>array</type><methodname>date_parse</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>date</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>date</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Date in format accepted by <function>strtotime</function>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns <type>array</type> with information about the parsed date
   on success&return.falseforfailure;.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="errors">
  &reftitle.errors;
  <para>
   In case the date format has an error, the element 'errors' will 
   contains the error messages.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 
 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>A <function>date_parse</function> example</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
print_r(date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00.5"));
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs;
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
Array
(
    [year] => 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] => 
)
]]>
    </screen>
   </example>
  </para>
  <para>
   <link linkend="datetime.formats.relative">Relative formats</link> do not
   influence the values parsed from absolute formats, but are parsed into the
   "relative" element.
   <example>
    <title><function>date_parse</function> with relative formats</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
print_r(date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00.5 +1 week +1 hour"));
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs;
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
Array
(
    [year] => 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
        )

)]]>
    </screen>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>checkdate</function></member>
    <member><function>getdate</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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