Small date parsing issue

Hey everyone, did some research to try to figure out the issue, but still having issues. Hoping for some help.

I started my reading here : http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Basically I have a string variable that is an 8 digit number: ex- MMDDYYYY

All I want to accomplish is taking the variable $date and displaying it in plain text so it would work like this:

$date = "10142010"

when I use print or echo on my page, I want that variable to display as October 10, 2010.


Any pointers?

 

hi,
your variable, $date = 10142010;

Now seperate the first two digits by using,

$rest = substr($date, 0, -6);
$dateandyear = substr($date,-6);

it will returns the first two digits,

place a if() statement,

if($rest == 01) {

$rest = January;
}
else if($rest == 02) {

$rest = Feb;
}
.
.
.
repeate it for all 12 months,

now echo $rest.'&nbsp'. $dateandyear;

the output will be,
October 10 2010

 

hey, the following shall sort it neatly..

$date = '10142010';

$month = substr($date, 0, 2);
$day = substr($date, 2, 2);
$year = substr($date, 4, 4);

$new_date = date('F, d Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year));

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EDIT:

I retract my previous post- I didnt know I received another reply already with the needed info.

Thanks mastermunj!

 

$date = '10142010';

preg_match('#^(?P<month>\d{2})(?P<day>\d{2})(?P<year>\d{4})$#D', $date, $digits);

$timestamp = strtotime("{$digits['month']}/{$digits['day']}/{$digits['year']}");

echo date('F, d Y', $timestamp);

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