How can we split dates in php? - php

Question

How can we split dates using PHP? Is there any built in function in PHP?
2016-11-01 10:00:00 till 2016-11-03 18:00:00
I need to split above date in to required dates:-
2016-11-01 10:00:00 till 23:59:59
2016-11-02 00:00:00 till 23:59:59
2016-11-03 00:00:00 till 18:00:00

Answer 1

To my knowledge PHP does not provide such built-in feature.
But you can easily achieve this with th DateTime object :
$interval = '2016-11-01 10:00:00 till 2016-11-03 18:00:00';
$dates = explode(' till ', $interval);
if(count($dates) == 2) {
$current = $begin = new DateTime($dates[0]);
$end = new DateTime($dates[1]);
$intervals = [];
// While more than 1 day remains
while($current->diff($end)->format('%a') >= 1) {
$nextDay = clone $current;
$nextDay->setTime(23,59,59);
$intervals []= [
'begin' => $current->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
'end' => $nextDay->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
];
$current = clone $nextDay;
$current->setTime(0,0,0);
$current->modify('+1 day');
}
// Last interval : from $current to $end
$intervals []= [
'begin' => $current->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
'end' => $end->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
];
print_r($intervals);
}

Answer 2

You can use for loop to achieve such type of result. Your requirement is to print date in one day difference between start and end date. I have write code for this .
<?php
$startDate = strtotime('2016-11-01 10:00:00');
$endDate = strtotime('2016-11-03 18:00:00');
for ($loopStart = $startDate; $loopStart <= $endDate; $loopStart = strtotime('+1 day', $loopStart)) {
// check last date
if($endDate >= strtotime('+1 day', $loopStart)){
echo date('Y-m-d', $loopStart).' 23:59:59';
}
else{
echo date('Y-m-d', $loopStart).' '.date('H:i:s',$endDate);
}
echo "<br>";
}
?>
The output of the code is -
2016-11-01 23:59:59
2016-11-02 23:59:59
2016-11-03 18:00:00