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Dear All,

I have a PHP page where i wil be displaying some data from Mysql db. I have 2 dates to display on this page.In my db table, Date 1 is in the format d/m/Y (ex: 11/11/2002) and Date 2 is in the format d-m-Y (ex : 11-11-2002) I need to display both of this in the same format .The format i have stored in a variable $dateFormat=’m/d/Y’

Can any one guide me

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use strtotime to convert the strings into a Unix timestamp, then use the date function to generate the correct output format.

Since you’re using the UK date format ‘d/m/Y’, and strtotime expects a US format, you need to convert it slighly differently:

$date1 = '28/04/2009'; $date2 = '28-04-2009';  function ukStrToTime($str) {     return strtotime(preg_replace('/^([0-9]{1,2})[\/\. -]+([0-9]{1,2})[\/\. -]+([0-9]{1,4})/', '\\2/\\1/\\3', $str)); }  $date1 = date($dateFormat, ukStrToTime($date1)); $date2 = date($dateFormat, ukStrToTime($date2));