Converting Date Formats.

[Anon]

Im having probs converting a date format into another.

I am have yyyymmdd and manipulating it with a number of equations but I then need to convert it to yyyy-mm-dd to select records from a table in the format of yyyy-mm-dd.

Thanks in advice for any help.

[Anon]

If the only problem is to insert hyphens, then here is a solution o your problem:

$sOldDate = "19790912";
$sDate = ereg_replace( '^{([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})$',} '\1-\2-\3', $sOldDate );

echo $sDate;

A better approach is probably to use mktime and date. But, for this single problem, the code above works just fine 😉

/ Ronnie