[ // Time 'am/pm' => 'A', // Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem ':mm' => ':i', // Minutes with leading zeros - if preceded by a ":" (otherwise month) 'mm:' => 'i:', // Minutes with leading zeros - if followed by a ":" (otherwise month) 'ss' => 's', // Seconds, with leading zeros '.s' => '', // Ignore (fractional seconds format does not exist in PHP) // Date 'e' => 'Y', // Full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits 'yyyy' => 'Y', // Full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits 'yy' => 'y', // Two digit representation of a year 'mmmmm' => 'M', // Short textual representation of a month, three letters ("mmmmm" should only contain the 1st letter...) 'mmmm' => 'F', // Full textual representation of a month 'mmm' => 'M', // Short textual representation of a month, three letters 'mm' => 'm', // Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 'm' => 'n', // Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 'dddd' => 'l', // Full textual representation of the day of the week 'ddd' => 'D', // Textual representation of a day, three letters 'dd' => 'd', // Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 'd' => 'j', // Day of the month without leading zeros ], self::KEY_HOUR_12 => [ 'hh' => 'h', // 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 'h' => 'g', // 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros ], self::KEY_HOUR_24 => [ 'hh' => 'H', // 24-hour hours with leading zero 'h' => 'G', // 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros ], ]; /** * Converts the given Excel date format to a format understandable by the PHP date function. * * @param string $excelDateFormat Excel date format * @return string PHP date format (as defined here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php) */ public static function toPHPDateFormat($excelDateFormat) { // Remove brackets potentially present at the beginning of the format string // and text portion of the format at the end of it (starting with ";") // See ยง18.8.31 of ECMA-376 for more detail. $dateFormat = preg_replace('/^(?:\[\$[^\]]+?\])?([^;]*).*/', '$1', $excelDateFormat); // Double quotes are used to escape characters that must not be interpreted. // For instance, ["Day " dd] should result in "Day 13" and we should not try to interpret "D", "a", "y" // By exploding the format string using double quote as a delimiter, we can get all parts // that must be transformed (even indexes) and all parts that must not be (odd indexes). $dateFormatParts = explode('"', $dateFormat); foreach ($dateFormatParts as $partIndex => $dateFormatPart) { // do not look at odd indexes if ($partIndex % 2 === 1) { continue; } // Make sure all characters are lowercase, as the mapping table is using lowercase characters $transformedPart = strtolower($dateFormatPart); // Remove escapes related to non-format characters $transformedPart = str_replace('\\', '', $transformedPart); // Apply general transformation first... $transformedPart = strtr($transformedPart, self::$excelDateFormatToPHPDateFormatMapping[self::KEY_GENERAL]); // ... then apply hour transformation, for 12-hour or 24-hour format if (self::has12HourFormatMarker($dateFormatPart)) { $transformedPart = strtr($transformedPart, self::$excelDateFormatToPHPDateFormatMapping[self::KEY_HOUR_12]); } else { $transformedPart = strtr($transformedPart, self::$excelDateFormatToPHPDateFormatMapping[self::KEY_HOUR_24]); } // overwrite the parts array with the new transformed part $dateFormatParts[$partIndex] = $transformedPart; } // Merge all transformed parts back together $phpDateFormat = implode('"', $dateFormatParts); // Finally, to have the date format compatible with the DateTime::format() function, we need to escape // all characters that are inside double quotes (and double quotes must be removed). // For instance, ["Day " dd] should become [\D\a\y\ dd] $phpDateFormat = preg_replace_callback('/"(.+?)"/', function($matches) { $stringToEscape = $matches[1]; $letters = preg_split('//u', $stringToEscape, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); return '\\' . implode('\\', $letters); }, $phpDateFormat); return $phpDateFormat; } /** * @param string $excelDateFormat Date format as defined by Excel * @return bool Whether the given date format has the 12-hour format marker */ private static function has12HourFormatMarker($excelDateFormat) { return (stripos($excelDateFormat, 'am/pm') !== false); } }