Question

I write some code to comapre the dates,here i got the problem is when i enter the date as 2012/mar/23 gives output some times correct,some times wrong.when i enter the date as 2012/03/23 gives output also some times corrct ,sometimes wrong.how can i solve this problem?

<?php
    $month = 2;
    $year = 2012;
    $saturday = strtotime('First Saturday '.date('F o', mktime(0,0,0, $month, 1, $year)));
    echo date('Y/M/d', $saturday);
    $sat1 = strtotime($saturday);
    echo "<br/>";
    $season1 = strtotime ( '+12 week' , $saturday);
    $season2= date ( 'Y/M/d' , $season1 );
    echo $season2;
    $season = strtotime($season1);
    echo "<br/>";
    $date = $_POST["date"];
    echo $date;
    $date1 = strtotime($date);
    echo "<br/>";
    $abc = strtotime ('+1 week' , $season1);
    $abc = date ('Y/M/d', $abc);
    echo "<br/>";
    echo $abc;
    $abc1 = strtotime($abc);
    if ($date1 <= $abc1)
    {
        if ($date1 <= $season)
        {
            echo "League already opened";
        }
        else if($date1 > $season)
        {
        echo "league successfully closed";
        }
    }
    else 
    {
        echo "league 1 closed"; 
    }
    if(!isset($POST['submit'])) {
?>
    <form method="post" action=" ">
        <label>enter date in YYYY/MM/DD format</label>
        <input type="text" name="date" size="10" />
        <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
    </form>
<?
    }
?>

and in output it shows the msg in if condition.before submit the form

Answer 1

try like this:

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y/m/d', '2012/03/23');
echo $date->format('Y/m/d');

or like this:

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y/M/d', '2012/Mar/23');
echo $date->format('Y/m/d');