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Chris G.
Chris G.

Reputation: 3981

Changing date formats in PHP < 5.3.0

Given a date string in the format m-d-Y (e.g, "12-09-2011") how can I display it in the format "m/d/Y" WITHOUT resorting to regular expressions.

Just in case you missed it: without using regular expressions.

I would prefer to use DateTime::createFromFormat() for this problem, but the server I am using currently doesn't have 5.3.0 on it.

I'd also prefer using date('m/d/Y', strtotime("12-09-2011")) but strtotime() doesn't recognize that format properly. It confuses the day and month.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 188

Answers (3)

Sjoerd
Sjoerd

Reputation: 75619

sscanf("12-09-2011", "%d-%d-%d", $month, $day, $year);
echo "$month/$day/$year";

Upvotes: 1

Not-in-use
Not-in-use

Reputation: 79

What about exploding it? i.e. 

$date = explode('-',  "12-09-2011");
echo $date[1] . '/' . $date[0] . '/' . $date[2];

Upvotes: 1

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360762

No need for heavy artillery. Since you're not rearranging the date components, a simple string search/replace will do:

$string = '12-09-2011';
$fixed = str_replace('-', '/', $string);

If you WERE rearrangine things, e.g. durning your m-d-Y into d/m/y, then you'd need something a bit heavier:

$string = '12-09-2011';
$parts = explode('-', $string); // array(0 => '12', 1 => '09', 2 => '2011');
$fixed = $parts[1] . '/' . $parts[0] . '/' . $parts[2]; // 09/12/2011

Upvotes: 3

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