Question

I want to strip out everything before the first “- ” and everything after the ” -” so I am left with “Dec 25, 2011” below (dates are dynamic so it always wont be Dec 25, 2011). I need to have a Javascript variable first:

Here is the html:

<p class="review-rating">
 By oakbarrels
 - Dec 25, 2011
 -
 Something.com
</p>

Here is the javascript variable I want to strip out “Dec 25, 2011”:

var thedate = $(this).find('.review-rating').html();

With “Dec 25, 2011” in a variable I would like to now use pHp strtotime to format it to “12/25/2011”.

Answer 1

To get the date string with Javascript, you can do something like this in jQuery:

$('.review-rating').text().match(/\-\s([^\n]+)/)[1].trim();

You can see a jsFiddle of this here: http://jsfiddle.net/w2HvA/

Once this date string is passed to PHP you can use the following to format it.

echo date("d/n/Y", strtotime($theDateString));