On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:25:08PM -0500, Rw wrote:
>
> "01-02-2003"
>
> Is there a handy function to convert that to other ways of expressing the
> date such as:
>
> "01/02/03"
$temp = preg_replace('/^(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})(\d{2})$/', '\\1/\\2/\\4',
$date);
> "2003-01-02"
$temp = preg_replace('/^(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})$/', '\\3/\\1/\\2',
$date);
It's also a good idea to do a test to make sure the initial date is in the
format you expect it to be:
if ($temp == $date) {
echo 'WAIT a second... Your initial date was bad.';
}
--Dan
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