need help converting a date

[Shadowsil]

ok I have a variable that is $date. The problem is that the date comes in format 25-oct-03 and what I need to do is convert the month part to an actual number and the '03 part to 2003

so the code I have so far is

list($date,) = explode(" ",$st->token(","));
list($day,$mon,$year) = explode("-",$date);

what is the easiest way to do this?

[eoghain]

Look at [man]strtotime/man you should be able to do somethign like this:

$timestamp = strtotime("25-oct-03");
$niceDate = date("d-m-Y", $timestamp);