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Change Date from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-dd-mm

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  1. Conversion
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  3. $date_array = explode("/",$date); // split the array
  4. $var_day = $date_array[0]; //day seqment
  5. $var_month = $date_array[1]; //month segment
  6. $var_year = $date_array[2]; //year segment
  7. $new_date_format = "$var_year-$var_day-$var_month"; // join them together
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  11. Possibly a more MySQL friendly format in some circumstances.
  12. Change period-separated to slash-separated or vice versa (and reverse order)
  13.  
  14. Convert date from YYYY/MM/DD to DD.MM.YYYY (and from DD.MM.YYYY to YYYY/MM/DD)
  15.  
  16. /**
  17.  * @param string $date (d.m.y, y-m-d, y/m/d)
  18.  * @return string|bol
  19.  */
  20.  
  21. function convertDate($date) {
  22.        // EN-Date to GE-Date
  23.        if (strstr($date, "-") || strstr($date, "/"))   {
  24.                $date = preg_split("/[\/]|[-]+/", $date);
  25.                $date = $date[2].".".$date[1].".".$date[0];
  26.                return $date;
  27.        }
  28.        // GE-Date to EN-Date
  29.        else if (strstr($date, ".")) {
  30.                $date = preg_split("[.]", $date);
  31.                $date = $date[2]."-".$date[1]."-".$date[0];
  32.                return $date;
  33.        }
  34.        return false;
  35. }

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