Shawn McKenzie wrote: > tedd wrote: >> At 3:40 PM +0530 8/17/09, kranthi wrote: >>> dont you think http://in3.php.net/strtotime is a solution to your >>> problem ? >> No, it's not a solution to my problem -- I have he problem solved. >> >> I was just asking if anyone wanted to submit their php solution. It was >> only an exercise. >> >> I know there are numerous javascript solutions (some good, some bad), >> but ALL of their data has to be accepted and scrubbed by a php script >> anyway, so I was suggesting creating a php script to do it. >> >> If it's not a good exercise, then don't do it. > > First stab at it. Of course it needs US date ordering (month day year). > You can't do euro type dates or any other format because there is no > way to tell the difference between 1/2/2009 (January) and 1/2/2009 > (February): > > <?php > > $dates = array( > 'August 5, 2009', > 'Aug 05 2009', > 'Aug 5, 9', > '08/05/09', > '8-5-9', > '8 05 2009', > '8,5,9',); > > foreach($dates as $date) { > $date = preg_replace("#([\d])+[^/\d]+([\d]+)[^/\d]+([\d]+)#", > "$1/$2/$3", $date); > echo date("M j, Y", strtotime($date)) ."\n"; > } > > ?> > Guess you didn't like this one? Also, if you change the / to - in the preg_replace() it should work on Euro style dates. $date = preg_replace("#([\d])+[^-\d]+([\d]+)[^-\d]+([\d]+)#", "$1-$2-$3", $date); -Shawn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
