couldn't strtotime() do this without any mods? I personally would try
that first...
On 6/30/08, Mark Bomgardner <mbomgardner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to convert a date retrieved from user input to a mysql date. Here
> the problem, I need to convert one of three possible combinations, either
> 01/01/2008,01-01-2008 or 01.01.2008. I can't use explode because it's
> limited to one character to explode on. I would prefer not to use regexp,
> but think I am going to have to. The one part of the code that works below
> is using 01/01/2008 format. Any suggestions
>
> echo $olddate = '06/06/2008';
> echo "<br />";
> echo $olddate2 = '06-16-2008';
> echo "<br />";
> echo $olddate3 = '06.26.2008';
> echo "<br />";
> echo $newdate = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($olddate));
> echo "<br />";
> echo $newdate2 = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($olddate2));
> echo "<br />";
> echo $newdate3 = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($olddate3));
>
> markb
>
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