Comments on: Using eBay’s API to search auctions and return results http://www.money-code.com/2007/09/using-ebays-api-to-search-auctions-and-return-results/ Coding For Online Success Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:26:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rob Taylor http://www.money-code.com/2007/09/using-ebays-api-to-search-auctions-and-return-results/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Rob Taylor Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23 Love the code - having a fiddle now. One question is that ebaydate() is not defined anywhere - do you have a snippet to auto convert what they send back? cheers. Rob. Love the code – having a fiddle now. One question is that ebaydate() is not defined anywhere – do you have a snippet to auto convert what they send back?

cheers.
Rob.

]]> By: admin http://www.money-code.com/2007/09/using-ebays-api-to-search-auctions-and-return-results/comment-page-1/#comment-24 admin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-24 <p>I'm not liking this function.. and will probably re-write it now.. but this is what I have in place.</p> <p><code> <?php function getShortDate($stringDate){ if($stringDate == "") return ""; else{ $splitDate = explode(" " , $stringDate); $dateArray = explode("-", $splitDate[0]); $dateYear = $dateArray[0]; $dateMonth = $dateArray[1]; $dateDay = $dateArray[2]; $formattedDate = $dateMonth . "/" . $dateDay . "/" . $dateYear; unset($splitDate); unset($dateArray); return $formattedDate; } } function ebayDate($inStringDate){ $dateArr = explode("T",$inStringDate); $date = getShortDate($dateArr[0]); $dateSplit = explode("-",$dateArr[0]); $month = $dateSplit[1]; $year = $dateSplit[0]; $day = $dateSplit[2]; $timeArr = explode(":",rtrim(rtrim($dateArr[1],"000Z"),'.')); $hour = $timeArr[0]; $minute = $timeArr[1]; $second = $timeArr[2]; unset($dateArr); unset($dateSplit); unset($timeArr); return date("m/d/y H:i:s", gmmktime($hour -1 , $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year))." PDT"; } ?> </code></p> I’m not liking this function.. and will probably re-write it now.. but this is what I have in place.


< ?php
function getShortDate($stringDate){
if($stringDate == "")
return "";
else{
$splitDate = explode(" " , $stringDate);
$dateArray = explode("-", $splitDate[0]);
$dateYear = $dateArray[0];
$dateMonth = $dateArray[1];
$dateDay = $dateArray[2];
$formattedDate = $dateMonth . "/" . $dateDay . "/" . $dateYear;
unset($splitDate);
unset($dateArray);
return $formattedDate;
}
}

function ebayDate($inStringDate){
$dateArr = explode("T",$inStringDate);
$date = getShortDate($dateArr[0]);
$dateSplit = explode("-",$dateArr[0]);
$month = $dateSplit[1];
$year = $dateSplit[0];
$day = $dateSplit[2];
$timeArr = explode(":",rtrim(rtrim($dateArr[1],"000Z"),'.'));
$hour = $timeArr[0];
$minute = $timeArr[1];
$second = $timeArr[2];
unset($dateArr);
unset($dateSplit);
unset($timeArr);
return date("m/d/y H:i:s", gmmktime($hour -1 , $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year))." PDT";
}
?>

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