Regular Expression (I think)

[danIT]

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......

 

if (isset($_GET['tag']))
{
echo 'download.png
';
for($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 '
				
				
				'.$dp.'
				
				'.$entry->updated.'
				
				'.$entry->author->name.': 
				'.$entry->content.'
				
			
			';
			flush();
		}
}
}
else
{

echo 'You are limited by only being able to download a maximum of 5000 tweets. 

Follow me: @moodledan';
}


?>

 

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

 

'.$entry->updated.'

 

 

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

 

Id like it to output: 14-04-2009 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:

 

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

 

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

 

C: Re-arrange the date?

 

Dan

[dhicks]

'.$entry->updated.'

 

Could you just use string split?:

 

'.split("T",$entry->updated)[0].' '.split("Z",split("T",$entry->updated)[1])[0]'

 

--

David Hicks

[danIT]

Thanks Dhicks but I get the following error:

 

unexpected ] was expecting ' or ;

 

Can you help?

[powdarrmonkey]

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

 

$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)

 

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

[danIT]

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