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# date_parse

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.3)

date_parse — Returns associative array with detailed info about given date

### Description

array date_parse ( string `$date` )

### Parameters

`date`

  Date in format accepted by strtotime().

### Return Values

Returns array with information about the parsed date on success, or `FALSE` on failure.

### Errors/Exceptions

In case the date format has an error, the element 'errors' will contains the error messages.

### Examples

Example #1 A date_parse() example

`<?php
print_r(date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00.5"));
?>`

The above example will output:

    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] =>
    )

### See Also

- getdate()

date_offset_get
date_sub
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