note 51652 added to function.date

This function convert date format. <?php function dateFormat($input_date, $input_format, $output_format) { preg_match("/^([\w]*)/i", $input_date, $regs); $sep = substr($input_date, strlen($regs[0]), 1); $label = explode($sep, $input_format); $value = explode($sep, $input_date); $array_date = array_combine($label, $value); if (in_array('Y', $label)) { $year = $array_date['Y']; } elseif (in_array('y', $label)) { $year = $year = $array_date['y']; } else { return false; } $output_date = date($output_format, mktime(0,0,0,$array_date['m'], $array_date['d'], $year)); return $output_date; } $mydate = "16/04/02"; echo ('date input: '.$mydate.' -> date output: '.dateFormat($mydate, 'd/m/y', 'Y-m-d')); ?> This code will output: 16/04/2002 -> 2002-04-16 if you don't use PHP5 you can implement array_combine function by: <?php if (!function_exists('array_combine')) { function array_combine($a1, $a2) { if(count($a1) != count($a2)) return false; if(count($a1) <= 0) return false; $a1 = array_values($a1); $a2 = array_values($a2); $output = array(); for($i = 0; $i < count($a1); $i++) { $output[$a1[$i]] = $a2[$i]; } return $output; } } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51652 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51652&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51652&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51652&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51652&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51652&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51652&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php