strtotime() help needed

CybJunior

Hi.
I have a field to put in a date and i want it to be checked if the user had put it in correctly. I know that strtotime() date should be in yyyy-mm-dd format. How can i reconfigure it for dd-mm-yyyy format?
Thanks in advance....

Installer

The date for strtotime() can be in any one of several formats. See here.

For yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy:

$date = '2005-12-18';
$reformatted_date = date( 'd-m-Y', strtotime($date));

Weedpacket

But "dd-mm-yyy" isn't one of the ones strtotime() recognises, because "12-07-2005" is ambiguous (for humans as well as strtotime()).

Installer

..."dd-mm-yyy" isn't one of the ones strtotime() recognises...

Which, I imagine, is why it's not listed on the page I linked to. (Although numerical "month/day/year", arguably no less ambiguous, is. In fact just about any numerical format is ambiguous depending on which customary formats you're comparing. The trick is to know and use for strtotime() the ones that aren't ambiguous to that function.)