number checking..

[vocoder]

i have a problem..i have a string that is a date...however it's not always in the same format.

my string variable is called $new_date, and is an array

so lets say sometimes $new_date[1] = "30 Sep 2002", and othertimes it is $new_date[2] = "Sep 30 2002"

I need to make sure it's always in the same format, so I was thinking that I could check to see if the first character was a number, and if it was, explode the string then reassemble it in the format i want.

Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there a php function that will help me? I can't seem to find one off hand.

[Frag]

That would be my guess unless you can put more control on how you accepted the date in the first place.

Frag

[vocoder]

wish I could, but i'm basically stripping the dates from another page that is not in my control. I have no idea why they change the date format like that.

[buck2bcr]

You may want to use the strtotime function and then take that stamp and make whatever you want. For instance

$stamp = strtotime($new_date[1]);
$day = date("Y-m-d",$stamp);

Or use whatever format in the date function that you want.

HTH

Buck

[vocoder]

thanks so much, that is exactly what i was looking for.