Question

So I know how to format a date in PHP, but not from a custom format. I have a date that is a string “YYMMDD” and I want to make it “MMDDYYYY’. strtotime doesn’t seem like it would do a good job of this when the MM and DD are both low digits.

Answer 1

Ended up doing:

$expiration_date_year   = substr($matches['expiration_date'],0,2);
$expiration_date_month  = substr($matches['expiration_date'],2,2);
$expiration_date_day    = substr($matches['expiration_date'],4,2);
$expiration_date = date('m/d/Y', mktime(0,0,0,$expiration_date_month, $expiration_date_day, $expiration_date_year));