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Any ideas how to convert this string to something that I can perform math functions on in PHP?

I’ve tried intval() and strtotime() but it isn’t working. Is there a built-in method I can use?

Would something like the following help, with php on output?

<?php

$comment_date_var = $this->EE->localize-> string_to_timestamp({comment_date}); 

?>

(I haven’t tested, but info here may help)

Hey thanks.

I tried that from the docs, and it seems that no matter what format I pass the stored comment_date timestamp as (e.g. {comment_date format="%r") ) when I run it through the localize string_to_timestamp() it returns: invalid_date_formatting.

Here's the code I have:

$stored_comment_Date = '{comment_date format="%r"}'; // stored as numeric timestamp STRING
$converted_comment_Date = $this->EE->localize->string_to_timestamp($stored_comment_Date, FALSE); // yields invalid_date_formatting

Ok, I haven’t tested your exact code, but did get this working and maybe you can use it to work off of:

<?php

$comment_date_var = $this->EE->localize->string_to_timestamp("{comment_date format="%Y-%m-%d %g:%i %A"}");

echo "COMMENT_DATE_VAR: " . $comment_date_var . " END";

?>

Travis,

Thanks again this seems like an easy thing to accomplish and its still returning the same error when I format the {comment_date} like you have above.

If i take your code exactly I get the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘%’

Currently running EE 2.5.2 do you think this is the issue?

I ran the test on 2.5.3 with php set to output, so not sure if that would affect anything or not. Did you make sure to run the code within the exp:comment:entries tag pair?