note 102730 added to function.date

<?php /** * YA date converter. This function does NOT check if the supplied date is legal; it works according to the GIGO principle. * * @param string $date the input date. * @param string $format_in the format in which the input date is supplied. ASSERT( strlen( $date ) === strlen( $format_in ) ) * @param string $format_out the format in which the output date has to be returned. * @return string the date in the format of $format_out. */ function YA_date_converter( $date, $format_in, $format_out ) { $len = min( strlen( $date ), strlen( $format_in ) ); for( $i = 0; $i < $len; ++$i ) { if( false !== ( $pos = strpos( $format_out, substr( $format_in, $i, 1 ) ) ) ) { $format_out = substr( $format_out, 0, $pos ) . substr( $date, $i, 1 ) . substr( $format_out, $pos + 1 ); } } return $format_out; } // Feel free to figure out how it works. :-) echo YA_date_converter( '02-03-2011', 'dd-mm-yyyy', 'yyyymmdd' ), PHP_EOL; // 20110302 echo YA_date_converter( '02-03-2011', '!@-#$-%^&*', '*&^%$#@!' ), PHP_EOL; // 11023020 echo YA_date_converter( '02/03-2011', 'DD MM YYYY', 'the year is YYYY, month MM, day DD' ), PHP_EOL; // the/year-is 2011, month 03, day 02 ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 62.195.52.58 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/102730 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102730 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/102730 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php