strtotime not working

[Lucky1000]

Hi

 

I am new to PHP and trying to convert a date from a registration form (in the form 01/01/2011) to Y-m-d so that it can be stored in the database.

 

This is the code I have, pretty sure it worked before but not it has stopped working! Any ideas?

 

$dateformat = $_POST['dob'];

$correctformat = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($dateformat));

 

I have checked what $_POST['dob'] is printing and that is correct, however the $correctformat is printing 1970-01-01 everytime.

 

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

 

Thank you

[salathe]

What format is the date? strtotime() will accept m/d/Y but not d/m/Y.

[Lucky1000]

the date format from the form is - d/m/Y e.g. 01/01/2011

[AbraCadaver]

Then it needs to be d-m-Y:

 

$correctformat = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('/', '-', $dateformat)));