puting a xxxxxxxx date in xx/xx/xxxx format

I am doing it with phone numbers (xxx.xxx.xxxx) and zip codes (xxxxx-xxxx) already, and i basically copied and pasted the script and made the changes so i'm not sure why its not working with the date..

function Dates($sDate)
{
$sDate = ereg_replace("[^0-9]",'',$sDate);
if(strlen($sDate) != 8) return(False);
$sMonth = substr($sMonth,0,2);
$sDay = substr($sDay,2,2);
$sYear = substr($sYear,4,4);
$sDate = $sMonth . "/" . $sDay . "/" . $sYear;
return($sDate);
}

PHP:

<? 
if ($row['lic_dt'] > 0)
	{
	echo "This software package will expire on " . Dates($row['lic_dt']) . ".";
	}
	?>

PHP:

All the output shows is "This software package will expire on //.

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

The error is here:

$sMonth = substr($sMonth,0,2);
$sDay = substr($sDay,2,2);
$sYear = substr($sYear,4,4);

PHP:

In the substr() calls, none of the variables exists. Try replacing them all with $sDate.

 

ahhhhh... dang. I knew it was something easy.. mods can delete this thread if they want as it only makes me look like a simpleton :-D

 

But thanks so much for your help

 

Btw, you can do the same with RegEx:

function Dates($date)
{
	$date = preg_replace('/\D/', null, $date);
	return strlen($date) == 8 ? preg_replace('/^(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{4})$/', '$1/$2/$3', $date) : false;
}

PHP:

 

I wouldn't worry about it! We all have days like this

Brew

 

What is the $sDate that is being passed phrase as? Unixtime?

function($sDate)
{
  $sDate = strtotime($sDate);
  return  date('m/d/y',$sDate);
}

PHP:

 

No, it is just a number that i have in a database, like 01012007 or whatever.

One more question on this.. I want to make an edit box that has three text fields, one for the month, date and year. To do this I need to separate the values in the database, which is already done with the dates() function. However, I can't figure out how to output the $sDay, $sMonth and $sYear. Any help would be great!

Thanks,

Nathan