Formatting date

[johnrb87]

Hi there

 

I wonder if anyone can help.

 

I have a HTML form which i'm posting the contents of to a PHP file

 

At the moment, one of the fields i'm posting is called `date` and the value looks like

 

Jul 14, 2010

 

At in my PHP code I have

 

<?php
$date = $_POST['date'];
?>

 

is it possible to get PHP to convert the date format

 

Jul 14, 2010

 

to

 

2010-07-14

 

Any help would be great as im really struggling to do this basic task

 

Thanks

 

John

[AbraCadaver]

$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($_POST['date']));

[BillyBoB]

After some testing I have come up with a pretty basic way of doing it. The only reason i didn't do it completely with substr is: the day could be entered without the starting zero.

It does a check for that with strlen and fixes that problem.

<?php
$months = array("Jan" => '01', "Feb" => '02', "Mar" => '03', "Apr" => '04', "May" => '05', "Jun" => '06', "Jul" => '07', "Aug" => '08', "Sep" => '09', "Oct" => '10', "Nov" => '11', "Dec" => '12');
$date = "Jul 4, 2010";
$year = substr($date, -4);
$month = substr($date, 0, 3);
preg_match("/ (\d{1,2}),/", $date, $matches);
$day = $matches[1];
if(strlen($day)==1) $day = "0".$day;
$date = $year.'-'.$months[$month].'-'.$day;
echo $date;
?>

 

Good luck with the rest of your code.

[AbraCadaver]

I'm just curious why you would go through all of that when one strtotime() call does it? 

[Jessica]

I'm just curious why you would go through all of that when one strtotime() call does it? 

 

Seriously....PHP has this awesome manual.... :-P

[Maq]

I'm just curious why you would go through all of that when one strtotime() call does it? 

 

For fun...? 

[.josh]

omg it's jesi!

[Jessica]

omg it's jesi!

OMG NO WAI!!!