Builds a MySQL format date/time based on some query parameters.

You can pass an array of values (year, month, etc.) with missing parameter values being defaulted to either the maximum or minimum values (controlled by the $default_to parameter). Alternatively you can pass a string that will be passed to date_create().

$datetime string|array Required

An array of parameters or a strotime() string.

$default_to_max bool Optional

Whether to round up incomplete dates. Supported by values of $datetime that are arrays, or string values that are a subset of MySQL date format ('Y', 'Y-m', 'Y-m-d', 'Y-m-d H:i').
Default: false.

Default: false

string|false A MySQL format date/time or false on failure.

File: wp-includes/class-wp-date-query.php. View all references

public function build_mysql_datetime( $datetime, $default_to_max = false ) {
	if ( ! is_array( $datetime ) ) {

		/*
		 * Try to parse some common date formats, so we can detect
		 * the level of precision and support the 'inclusive' parameter.
		 */
		if ( preg_match( '/^(\d{4})$/', $datetime, $matches ) ) {
			// Y
			$datetime = array(
				'year' => (int) $matches[1],
			);

		} elseif ( preg_match( '/^(\d{4})\-(\d{2})$/', $datetime, $matches ) ) {
			// Y-m
			$datetime = array(
				'year'  => (int) $matches[1],
				'month' => (int) $matches[2],
			);

		} elseif ( preg_match( '/^(\d{4})\-(\d{2})\-(\d{2})$/', $datetime, $matches ) ) {
			// Y-m-d
			$datetime = array(
				'year'  => (int) $matches[1],
				'month' => (int) $matches[2],
				'day'   => (int) $matches[3],
			);

		} elseif ( preg_match( '/^(\d{4})\-(\d{2})\-(\d{2}) (\d{2}):(\d{2})$/', $datetime, $matches ) ) {
			// Y-m-d H:i
			$datetime = array(
				'year'   => (int) $matches[1],
				'month'  => (int) $matches[2],
				'day'    => (int) $matches[3],
				'hour'   => (int) $matches[4],
				'minute' => (int) $matches[5],
			);
		}

		// If no match is found, we don't support default_to_max.
		if ( ! is_array( $datetime ) ) {
			$wp_timezone = wp_timezone();

			// Assume local timezone if not provided.
			$dt = date_create( $datetime, $wp_timezone );

			if ( false === $dt ) {
				return gmdate( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', false );
			}

			return $dt->setTimezone( $wp_timezone )->format( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' );
		}
	}

	$datetime = array_map( 'absint', $datetime );

	if ( ! isset( $datetime['year'] ) ) {
		$datetime['year'] = current_time( 'Y' );
	}

	if ( ! isset( $datetime['month'] ) ) {
		$datetime['month'] = ( $default_to_max ) ? 12 : 1;
	}

	if ( ! isset( $datetime['day'] ) ) {
		$datetime['day'] = ( $default_to_max ) ? (int) gmdate( 't', mktime( 0, 0, 0, $datetime['month'], 1, $datetime['year'] ) ) : 1;
	}

	if ( ! isset( $datetime['hour'] ) ) {
		$datetime['hour'] = ( $default_to_max ) ? 23 : 0;
	}

	if ( ! isset( $datetime['minute'] ) ) {
		$datetime['minute'] = ( $default_to_max ) ? 59 : 0;
	}

	if ( ! isset( $datetime['second'] ) ) {
		$datetime['second'] = ( $default_to_max ) ? 59 : 0;
	}

	return sprintf( '%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d', $datetime['year'], $datetime['month'], $datetime['day'], $datetime['hour'], $datetime['minute'], $datetime['second'] );
}