- strpos: documentation ( source)
- explode: documentation ( source)
- date: documentation ( source)
- strtotime: documentation ( source)
<?php function format_date_input($value) {
if (strpos($value, '/') != false) { // Delimiter is '/' - jQuery datepicker in use
list($day, $month, $year) = explode('/', $value);
} else if (strpos($value, '-') != false) { // Delimiter is '-' - HTML5 datepicker in use
list($year, $month, $day) = explode('-', $value);
} else return '';
$usdate = $month.'/'.$day.'/'.$year;
$timestamp = strtotime($usdate);
if ($timestamp == false) return '';
else return date($format, $timestamp);
}
format_date_input('2014-01-10');
?>