BDAY and Gender not correct?

Hi, great work. Only having a bit trouble do get the birthday and gender correctly.

In my vcard that I wanted to parse it says:
GENDER:M
BDAY:19800517

But the gender and birthday seem not to convert correctly
back into php strings.

Hi tutu,

you're right but take in account
1. in vCard Version v3.0 the BDAY property shoud be in ISO Date Format
1980-05-17
1980-05-17T15:52:01
1980-05-17T15:52:01+0000
... the format you try to parse contains no separators (19800517), what is the specification of vCard Version v2.1

2. The GENDER property is introduced first in vCard Version v4.0

But anyway - I have implemented both variants in the package, although the package actually only supports vCard v3.0:
- BDAY without separators are converted to correct Date value
- The GENDER and X-GENDER property is now supported (return value is always the GENDER Format)


Could you tell me, from which Source the data comes that you try to parse? I have in mind maybe to implement full support of vCard Version v4.0. But since I haven't found any program or application that generates data in this version and I don't have any customer with the corresponding requirement so far, I don't see a need for it yet, but keep an eye on it...

The package here on phpClasses is directly connected to the origin on github but i don't know how long it last until the package is updated automatically - so if you want to get the actual version feel free to get it from

github.com/Stefanius67/VCard

Stefanius