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jatkins on 03/21/11


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Convert YYYY-DD-MM dates to M d, Y format

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Released into the public domain. Example: echo convert_dates('On 1969-07-20, the first Moon landing occurred. The crew returned to Earth on 1969-07-24. The last landing occurred on 1972-12-11.'); prints "On July 20, 1969, the first Moon landing occurred. The crew returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. The last landing occurred on December 11, 1972."

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  1. <?php
  2. global $months;
  3. $months = array('January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');
  4. function convert_dates($text) {
  5. 	$date_regexp = '/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2})/';
  6. 	preg_match_all($date_regexp, $text, $dates);
  7. 	$dates     = $dates[0];
  8. 	$new_dates = $dates;
  9. 	for($i=0;$i<count($new_dates);$i++) {
  10. 		$new_dates[$i] = explode('-', $new_dates[$i]);
  11. 		$new_dates[$i] = $GLOBALS['months'][abs($new_dates[$i][1])-1] . ' ' . abs($new_dates[$i][2]) . ', ' . $new_dates[$i][0];
  12. 	}
  13. 	$text = str_replace($dates, $new_dates, $text);
  14. 	return $text;
  15. }
  16. ?>

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