Dates and convert to Unix Time Stamp using strtotime

Question

I kind of asked this before but now I really need this to work since I'm currently creating a form using the Update Record Form Wizard and the Date Picker to add/update/delete tour dates and this DB was created years ago and uses Unix Time Stamps to enter dates in the DB (example: 1202596733) and I know ADDT's date picker automatically doesn't support that format but there's got to be some way to incorporate the strtotime PHP command into either the add page or the tNG.dispatcher.class.php file. But how? Has anyone experimented with this previously? I was on another forum and they told me to add this:
$timestamp = strtotime($_POST['tourdate']);
to my code but they didn't tell me where and nothing seems to work in making it happen. Anybody got a clue?

Answer 1

Hi Sean,
You should be able to simply add the new directory to your include path. But this might fail if relative rather than absolute paths are used
Indeed, ADDT internally uses relative paths at various places, e.g. the file "includes/common/KT_functions.inc.php" has function named KT_getSiteRoot(), where the variable $siteroot has the following value:
dirname(realpath(__FILE__)) . '/../..';
In addition many scripts are defining an absolute path to other scripts, e.g. the Captcha configuration file sets the global variable "KT_CAPTCHA_TEMP_URL" to "includes/common/_temp/.captcha/" -- means that moving the ADDT libraries to a folder like "includes/ssa/" will not work without modifying whatever ADDT script which uses such a hard-coded path, and there are plenty of them.
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver