Convert german date string into date and check if its before today-CodePudding

I have a string with my german date Freitag - 09. September 2022 - 14:00 (Format is: l - d. F Y - H:i). It need to be displayed in this format on my homepage thats why its in this format.

Now i want to parse this string into a date that i can check if the given date is before todays date (i only want to check day, month and year, so time is unnecessary).

I already tried a lot of things with strtotime and also DateTime::createFromFormat but nothing worked for me.

Is there any solution for that?

CodePudding user response：

You can use the IntlDateFormatter to parse the German date. This requires the intl PHP extension.

$germanDateText  = 'Freitag - 09. September 2022 - 14:00';
$formatter       = new IntlDateFormatter('de-DE', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'Europe/Berlin', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN, 'EEEE - dd. MMMM yyyy - HH:mm');
$germanTimestamp = $formatter->parse($germanDateText);
$germanDayStart  = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $germanTimestamp));
$todayDayStart   = strtotime(date('Y-m-d'));

$isBeforeToday   = $germanDayStart < $todayDayStart;
var_dump($isBeforeToday);

Output

bool(true)