- preg_match: documentation ( source)
- print_r: documentation ( source)
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- date_create_from_format: documentation ( source)
- date: documentation ( source)
- strtotime: documentation ( source)
<?php
$appt_notes = "Packet emailed 09-26-2014 14:21:47";
preg_match_all("/packet (e{0,1}mailed) (\d{2,4}-\d{2}-\d{2,4})/i",$appt_notes,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
if (!empty($matches))
{
$packet_sentby = $matches[count($matches)-1][1];
if (preg_match("/^\d{4}/",$matches[count($matches)-1][2]))
{
$packet_date = date('m-d',strtotime($matches[count($matches)-1][2]));
} else {
$packet_date = date_create_from_format('Y-m-d',$matches[count($matches)-1][2]);
}
} else {
$packet_sentby = "";
$packet_date = "";
}
echo "Notes = $appt_notes <br>\n<br>\n";
echo $packet_sentby . "<br>\n" . $packet_date;
echo "<hr>\n";
print_r($matches);
?>