String To Date Conversion -- Easy

[gaming_mouse]

I have dates like "8/27" or "9/4", and I need to convert them to date objects.

When choosing a year, we should go backwards until we find the first match. That is, if the script runs on Jan 1, 2008 and encounters the string "8/27", it should return a date for "8/27/2007".

I've been playing around with strtodate and some other functions but I can't figure this out, and as there must be a simple solution I'd like to avoid writing a custom function.

Thanks for any help,
Jonah

[NogDog]

This seems to work:

function get_last_date($monthSlashDay)
{
   $year = (date('Ymd', strtotime($monthSlashDay))) > date('Ymd') ?
           date('Y') - 1 : date('Y');
   return date($monthSlashDay.'/'.$year);
}
// TEST:
$testData = array();
for($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++)
{
   $testData[] = $i.'/'.$i*2;
}
foreach($testData as $test)
{
   echo '<p>'.$test.': '.get_last_date($test)."</p>\n";
}

[gaming_mouse]

Perfect. Thank you very much.