I want to replace the month number of a string of date in mm-dd-yy format.
<?php
$db_currentDate = '2015-01-26';
$month = '03';
echo substr_replace($db_currentDate,$month, 5,6);
?>
But this output only 2015-03 , I want this output to be 2015-03-26. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks
Just change this line:
echo substr_replace($db_currentDate, $month, 5, 6);
to this:
echo substr_replace($db_currentDate, $month, 5, 2);
//^ See here
As a reference to substr_replace() from the manual: http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php
You can see this quote:
length If given and is positive, it represents the length of the portion of string which is to be replaced
or you can try this always works
<?php
$db_currentDate = '2015-01-26';
$month = '03';
$db_newDate_array = explode("-",$db_currentDate);
$db_newDate = $db_newDate_array[0]."-".$month."-".$db_newDate_array[2];
echo $db_newDate;
?>
let me know if that helps :)
regular expression version!
echo preg_replace('/(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)/i', '${1}-03-$3', $db_currentDate);
string: "03" (length=2)