[thelist] Converting date format with PHP

Beau Hartshorne beau at members.evolt.org
Fri Sep 21 00:04:08 CDT 2001


Try this:

<?php
function changeDate ($inputDate) {
  $split = explode("/", $inputDate);
  $outputDate = "" . $split[2] . "/" . $split[1] . "/" . $split[0];
  Return $outputDate;
}
echo changeDate ("DD/MM/YYYY");
?>

That's just one of the many ways to change a date with php...

Cheers,

Beau

> Howdy y'all
> 
> Well, going straight to the point:  I have a date that is 
> typed by the user 
> in the format dd/mm/yyyy, that is the user's birthdate 
> (Brazilian date 
> format). So my birthday date would be 31/03/1982 . The 
> problem is that 
> MySQL saves dates in the yyyy/mm/dd format, so I need to 
> convert the birth 
> date to MySQL's format.
> Does anybody have a function?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz
> Webmaster www.camobi.com (hobby :)
> Development/Support Dept. of ICONEWEB
> www.iconeweb.com.br (the company I work for)





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