Regular Expression (I think)

If you have ever seen a post from me in the coding forum you will know that programming isnt exactly my strong point so I appreciate any reply......

Code:

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<?php
if (isset($_GET['tag']))
{
 echo '<div class="download"><a href="twitter_csv.php?tag='.$tag.'&maxpages='.$max_pages.'"><img src="download.png" /></a></div><br><div class="scroll">';
        for($page = 1; $page <= $max_pages; $page++)
        {
                $url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q={$tag}&rpp=100&page={$page}";
                $xmlstr = file_get_contents($url);

                $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
                        foreach ($xml->entry as $entry)
                        {
                                foreach ($entry->link as $link)
                                                {
                                                        switch((string) $link['rel']) { // Get attributes as element indices
                                                        case 'image':
                                                                $dp = $link['href'];
                                                                break;
                                                        }
                                                }

                        echo '<div class="tweetScroller">
                                        <div class="tweet">
                                        <div class="userImage">
                                        <a href="'.$entry->author->uri.'"><img src="'.$dp.'" alt="'.$entry->author->name.'" title="'.$entry->author->name.'" width="48px" height="48px" /></a>
                                        </div>
                                        <div class="date">'.$entry->updated.'</div>
                                        <div class="content">
                                        <a href=""><span class="username">'.$entry->author->name.'</span></a>:
                                        '.$entry->content.'
                                        </div>
                                </div>
                                </div>';
                                flush();
                        }
        }
}
else
{

echo '<div id="about">You are limited by only being able to download a maximum of 5000 tweets. <br><br> Follow me: @moodledan</div>';
}


?>

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Had some help from JackD in putting this together but ill draw your attention to the line:

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<div class="date">'.$entry->updated.'</div>

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This outputs: 2009-04-14T17:37:35Z

Id like it to output: 14-04-2009 <space> 17:37:35

Removing the T and Z and re-organising the layout. Now im guessing its not all possible in one simple "one liner" but if somone could:

A: Tell me where in the code to put the relevant regex

I was thinking somewhere here:

Code:

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foreach ($entry->link as $link)
                                                {
                                                        switch((string) $link['rel']) { // Get attributes as element indices
                                                        case 'image':
                                                                $dp = $link['href'];
                                                                break;
                                                        }

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B: Which regex/bit of code do i need to enable me to remove the Z and T

C: Re-arrange the date?

Dan

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Originally Posted by danIT

Code:

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<div class="date">'.$entry->updated.'</div>

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Could you just use string split?:

Code:

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<div class="date">'.split("T",$entry->updated)[0].' '.split("Z",split("T",$entry->updated)[1])[0]'</div>

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David Hicks

Thanks Dhicks but I get the following error:

unexpected ] was expecting ' or ;

Can you help?

Don't bother with a regex, PHP can do this natively in two steps:

PHP Code:

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$ds = "2009-04-14T17:37:35Z";  // this is the string you already have

$dt = strtotime($ds); // the strtotime() function takes a string in standard-ish form and tries to turn it into a UNIX timestamp, like 1239730655 in this case
echo $dt."\n";

echo date("d-m-Y H:i", $dt)."\n"; //date() formats a UNIX timestamp back into human-readable, according to specification (the first parameter) 


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References: PHP: strtotime - Manual, PHP: date - Manual

Worked like a charm, and clearly a much more sensible solution.