Converting birthday in format DDMMMYY to date value in PHP - php

Question

I've got bunch of birthdays which are stored in format DDMMMYY. I need to convert those to date values, so i can store those in database.
Is there any easy way of telling strtotime function that date must be in the past?
<?php
$datestring = '22SEP41';
echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime($datestring)); //outputs 2041-09-22, should be 1941-09-22
?>

Answer 1

<?php
$datestring = '22SEP41';
$matches = [];
preg_match('/([0-9]{2})([A-Z]{3})([0-9]{2})/', $datestring, $matches);
$prefix = ($matches[3] <= date('y') ? '20' : '19');
$matches[3] = "{$prefix}{$matches[3]}";
$ts = strtotime("{$matches[1]} {$matches[2]} {$matches[3]}");
// date ('Y-m-d', $ts) == 1941-09-22
This assumes that 22SEP06 should be interpreted as 2006 rather than 1906 - basically it gives the output a range of 1917 -> 2016.

Answer 2

This method create a date of past century only if standard evaluated date is after today:
$date = date_create( $datestring );
if( $date->diff( date_create() )->invert )
{
$date->modify( '-100 years' );
}
echo $date->format( 'Y-m-d' );
For
$datestring = '22SEP41';
the output is:
1941-09-22
For
$datestring = '22SEP01';
the output is:
2001-09-22
eval.in demo
Basically, we create a DateTime based on given string, then we calculate difference with current day; if the difference is negative (->invert), we subtract 1 century from the date.
You can personalize the condition using ->format('%R%Y') instead of ->invert. In this example:
if( $date->diff( date_create() )->format('%R%Y') < 10 )
Dates from 00 through 05 as evaluated as 2000-2005.

Answer 3

You could try something like:
$ds = '22SEP41';
$day = $ds[0].$ds[1];
// Getting the month.
$mon = array(
'JAN' => 1,
'FEB' => 2,
'MAR' => 3,
'APR' => 4,
'MAY' => 5,
'JUN' => 6,
'JUL' => 7,
'AUG' => 8,
'SEP' => 9,
'OCT' => 10,
'NOV' => 11,
'DEC' => 12
);
$mont = $ds[2].$ds[3].$ds[4];
$month = $mon[$mont]; // Gets the month real.
$year = '19'.$ds[5].$ds[6];
$final = $day.'-'.$month.'-'.$year;
I tested it on my local machine and it worked. Hope it works and is what you're looking for :)