UK Dates: 05/01/2007 is 5th jan NOT 1st May!

Hi,
My user enters a UK into a text box on the web page.
If they enter 05/01/2007 PHP will think it's the 1st may, when it's 5th January.

so formatting the text as full month names will display the wrong month.

How can I tell PHP that the first part is the day, then the month etc.

Thanks

 

Have the day, month and year in select/drop down boxes.

Then join them at the end

$publish_day = $_POST['publish_day'];
$publish_month = $_POST['publish_month'];
$publish_year = $_POST['publish_year'];
$publish_date_combine = $publish_year . '-' . $publish_month . '-' . $publish_day;
$publish_date = strtotime($publish_date_combine);

PHP:

Then when you want to output the data again just do

$date = date('d-m-Y', $publish_date);

PHP:

 

or try this

$arrDate = explode('/',$dateField);
date('F d, Y', mktime(0,0,0 $arrDate[1], $arrDate[0], $arrDate[2]);

Note: assuming $dateField is the value of the field coming from the post

 

Both excellent responses, thank you!