substr_replace query

[Icebergness]

Hi,

 

I currently produce a directory listing which simply shows the name of the file as a link. The code for this is below:

<?php

$link  = "dol_2011\_feb";

    if (file_exists($link)) 
    
    echo "<h2>February</h2>";
    
    {
        if ($handle = opendir($link))

			{ 
    				
    				while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
    				
    					{  
       					
       						if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
       						
       							{  
           							if(!preg_match("/\.pdf$/", $file)) continue;
           							
           								{
           									
           									echo "<a href=\"".$link."/".$file."\">".substr_replace($file ,"",-4)."</a><br>";}
        								
        						}  
        						
        				}
        				
				echo "<br>"; 
    					
    				closedir($handle); }



    }
    
?>

 

This works perfectly, although the files in the folder are all named "DOLddmmyy.pdf" (obviously ddmmyy is the current date). The current script removes the ".pdf", but I would like to be able to format the text like dd/mm/yy. Is it possible to apply all these changes on the same string? Renaming the files isn't possible I'm afraid, so I'm stuck with the current file names.

 

Many thanks

[QuickOldCar]

easiest way I could come up with

 

<?php
$string = "DOLddmmyy.pdf";
$string_day = substr($string, 3, 2);
$string_month = substr($string, 5, 2);
$string_year = substr($string, 7, 2);

$combine_strings = "$string_day/$string_month/$string_year";

echo $combine_strings;
?>

[Icebergness]

Hi QuickOldCar,

 

This worked perfectly, thank you very much