php date reformat

Question

I need a function that takes any date/time and re formats it to a different format.

e.g.

$date = "31/12/2010 15:00:00" => has a format of d/m/Y H:i:s so if i need a different format like

$returning_format = "m/d/Y H:i:s" => for America date/time

$newdate = transoform_date($current_format,$returning_format,$date); the above line should return 12/31/2010 15:00:00

NOTE: I don't need it for this format only coz i can explode it and re-arrange it, so it can accept any format and return the desired format date.

Userful links for the @Mchl Answer "stackoverflow.com/questions/2621433/…" — Val
– Val, Commented Jan 5, 2011 at 14:29

Mchl · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-05 13:59:56Z

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For PHP 5.3+

$newdate = DateTime::createFromFormat($current_format,$date)->format($returning_fomrat);

answered Jan 5, 2011 at 13:59

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Val Over a year ago

Most shared hosting companies allow you to use php 5.2.6 therefore is practically as good as leaving it as it is or better than as it will throw php errors

Mchl Over a year ago

You can only foorce them to adpot 5.3 by putting pressure on them ;) Luckily 5.2.16 is the last release in 5.2

Val Over a year ago

I am working for a company if i forced them for each clients I would waste a hell of alot of my time befriending the hosting company for a datetime lol not practical (yet) but +1 for exact function as described on the answer

Val Over a year ago

This is kinda useful :) stackoverflow.com/questions/2621433/…

Poelinca Dorin · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-05 13:57:49Z

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strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp

function transform_date($return_format, $date)
{
    return date($return_format, strtotime($date));
}

answered Jan 5, 2011 at 13:57

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Mchl Over a year ago

How does it know difference between 5-1-11 and 1-5-11?

Val Over a year ago

thats wat was putting me off aswell :)

Poelinca Dorin Over a year ago

strtotime on php.net tells us: Valid formats are explained in php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php

Mchl Over a year ago

Don't get me wrong, strtotime is great as long as you feed it correct formats. The question was however about parsing ANY format, as long as the format specification is given.

Poelinca Dorin Over a year ago

oki , let's say you pass that time and it doesn't work as expected , you'd use @Mchi example you'd have to know the current date format , do you know it or not ? if not then the best option would be to use this .

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