PHP reformat date before POST

Question

while posting a date from a PHP form, I must enter it as YYYY-MM-DD to be accepted. is there a way I can reformat the date as it POSTS so people can enter it as DD-MM-YYYY?

. date("M d, Y", strtotime($_POST['dob']));

.. or something?

Warface · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-25 03:30:54Z

1

It's running fine

<?php echo date("M d, Y", strtotime('12-06-1982')); ?>

output

Jun 12, 1982

UPDATE WITH EXAMPLE

HTML

<form action="date.php" method="post"> <input type="text" name="dob"/> <input type="submit" name="submitDate" value="submit"/> </form>

date.php

<?php if ($_POST['submitDate']){ echo date("M d, Y", strtotime($_POST['dob'])); } ?>

This will return the date in that format that you want. Simple!

edited Jul 25, 2011 at 3:30

answered Jul 25, 2011 at 2:43

Warface

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4 Comments

Jeff Voss Over a year ago

yea for ECHO, but is it the same setup for $_POST?

Warface Over a year ago

Even this work : echo date("M d, Y", strtotime('2011-07-24 00:00:00'));

Jeff Voss Over a year ago

now the dates are posted as "12-31-1969" ?? when I enter todays date

Jeff Voss Over a year ago

@Warface let us continue this discussion in chat

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