A non well formed numeric value encountered

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I have a form that passes two dates  start and finish  to a PHP script that will add those to a DB  I am having problems validating this  I keep getting the following errors   A non well formed numeric value encountered  This is when I use the following   date  d    GET  start date       But when I use the strtotime   function as advised by many sites I get a unix timestamp date of 1 1 1970  Any ideas how I can get the correct date

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You need to set the time zone using date default timezone set

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GET  start date   is not numeric is my bet  but an date format not supported by strtotime  You will need to re-format the date to a workable format for strtotime or use combination of explode mktime   I could add you an example if you d be kind enough to post the format you currently receive

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Because you are passing a string as the second argument to the date function  which should be an integer      string date   string  format    int  timestamp   time         Try strtotime which will Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp  integer    date  d   strtotime   GET  start date

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I ran into this same situation  in my case with a date value in a custom PHP field in a Drupal view   and what worked for me was using intval instead of strtotime to turn the value into an integer - because it basically was a timestamp  but in the form of a string rather than an integer  Obviously that won t be the case for everyone  but it might be worth a try

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This is an old question  but there is another subtle way this message can happen   It s explained pretty well here  in the docs   Imagine this scenerio   try        code that triggers a pdo exception   catch  Exception  e      throw new MyCustomExceptionHandler  e       And MyCustomExceptionHandler is defined roughly like   class MyCustomExceptionHandler extends Exception     public function   construct  e        parent    construct  e- gt getMessage     e- gt getCode             This will actually trigger a new exception in the custom exception handler because the Exception class is expecting a number for the second parameter in its constructor  but PDOException might have dynamically changed the return type of  e- gt getCode   to a string   A workaround for this would be to define you custom exception handler like   class MyCustomExceptionHandler extends Exception     public function   construct  e        parent    construct  e- gt getMessage          this- gt code    e- gt getCode

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This error occurs when you perform calculations with variables that use letters combined with numbers  alphanumeric   for example 24kb  886ab      I had the error in the following function  function get config bytes  val         val   trim  val        last   strtolower  val strlen  val -1               switch  last            case  g                val    1024          case  m                val    1024          case  k                val    1024            return  this- gt fix integer overflow  val       The application uploads images but it didn t work  it showed the following warning     Solution  The intval   function extracts the integer value of a variable with alphanumeric data and creates a new variable with the same value but converted to an integer with the intval   function  Here is the code   function get config bytes  val         val   trim  val        last   strtolower  val strlen  val -1         intval   intval trim  val        switch  last            case  g                intval    1024          case  m                intval    1024          case  k                intval    1024            return  this- gt fix integer overflow  intval

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This helped me a lot -  new date   date format date create  old date    Y-m-d      Here  date create   provides you a date object for a given date  amp  date format   will set it in a given format   for example   lt  php      date   date create  quot 13-02-2013 quot        DateTime Object    date    gt  2013-02-13 00 00 00 000000  timezone type    gt  3  timezone    gt  America New York       echo date format  date  quot Y-m-d quot          2013-02-13   gt

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if   GET  start date   is a string then convert it in integer or double to deal numerically    int    int    GET  start date      Integer  double    double    GET  start date      It takes in floating value with 2 digits

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If the error is at the time of any calculation  double check that the values does not contains any comma     Values must be only in integer  float format

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