date parse - quickie

[darrensw]

hi

I want to write a function to parse a date say from:

01-12-03 11:12

to

12/01/03

function makedateuk($string){

??????? not sure how to do this section ????

return $string;

}

Thanks for any help, much appreciated.

Darren

[planetsim]

try this

date("d/m/Y");

[darrensw]

hi

thanks for the reply... it is a text string tho... not a db select

[planetsim]

I dont quite understand that isnt calling anything from the database.

[darrensw]

hi again

it's actually just a text string which needs changing... not getting current date or anything like that

[planetsim]

can i see more code. I dont have much idea where $string is coming from.

[darrensw]

yeah... e.g.

I have a string which is called $last_date_posted which can be anything like: 20-10-03 and i want to change it to 10/20/03

so... i do something like this:

$last_date_posted = makedateuk($last_date_posted);

using the function in my set up include which is:

// change date to be uk style
function makedateuk($string){

????????? parse code to go here ???

return $string;

}

Really appreciate your help with this

Darren

[planetsim]

You should just use gmdate to start off with. You cannt exactly convert it unless its a time string or you know where the server is located.

[Nick_Whymark]

$last_date = "20-10-03";

$newdate = substr($last_date,4,2) . "/" . substr($last_date,1,2) . "/" . substr($last_date,7,2) ;

Another option is to store all dates as timestamps and then convert them using date() or getdate(). This has the advantage of making dates on your database easy to sort.