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<h1 class="refname">date_parse</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">date_parse</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns associative array with detailed info about given date</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>date_parse</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$date</code></span>
)</div>
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.date-parse-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">date</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Date in format accepted by <span class="function"><a href="function.strtotime.html" class="function">strtotime()</a></span>.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.date-parse-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns <span class="type"><a href="language.types.array.html" class="type array">array</a></span> with information about the parsed date
on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
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<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-function.date-parse-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
<p class="para">
In case the date format has an error, the element 'errors' will
contains the error messages.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.date-parse-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 A <span class="function"><strong>date_parse()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">date_parse</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"2006-12-12 10:00:00.5"</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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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] =>
)
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.date-parse-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.checkdate.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">checkdate()</a> - Validate a Gregorian date</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getdate.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getdate()</a> - Get date/time information</span></li>
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