Timestamp mktime php format - php

Question

I have a php page listed below with events and I wish to order them by dates. No problem with this, but I want the date format was "15/Lug/1998" and not "15/Lug/1998:00:00:00 -0000". I post the code to fix this problem. Thanks in advance for your reply and help.
<?php
# For demo - some data that we will test with
$stuff = <<<COURSES
02 - - [15/Lug/1998:00:00:00 -0000] "Event01"
05 - - [21/Lug/1998:00:00:00 -0000] "Event02"
07 - - [16/Lug/1998:00:00:00 -0000] "Event03"
COURSES;
# Date in yukky format to Unix timestamp
function gdate($record) {
eregi('\[([0-9]{2})/([A-Z]{3})/([0-9]{4}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})',
$record, $gotten);
$yikes = 1 + (strpos("GenFebMarAprMagGiuLugAgoSetOttNovDic",
$gotten[2]))/3; # Date "Alpha Triplet" to Month No.
$when = mktime($gotten[4],$gotten[5],$gotten[6],
$yikes,$gotten[1],$gotten[3]);
return $when;
}
function bydate($left,$right) {
$whenone = gdate($left);
$whentwo = gdate($right);
if ($whenone == $whentwo) return 0;
return (($whenone < $whentwo) ? -1 : +1);
}
$records = explode("\n",$stuff);
sort ($records);
$result = implode("<br />",$records);
print "<hr> Normal sort</br>$result";
usort ($records,bydate);
$result = implode("<br />",$records);
print "<hr> User defined sort - by date stamp</br>$result";
?>

Answer 1

Your timestamp is generated through below code
function gdate($record) {
eregi('\[([0-9]{2})/([A-Z]{3})/([0-9]{4}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})',
$record, $gotten);
$yikes = 1 + (strpos("GenFebMarAprMagGiuLugAgoSetOttNovDic",
$gotten[2]))/3; # Date "Alpha Triplet" to Month No.
$when = mktime($gotten[4],$gotten[5],$gotten[6],
$yikes,$gotten[1],$gotten[3]);
return $when;
}
Modify it like below:
function gdate($record) {
eregi('\[([0-9]{2})/([A-Z]{3})/([0-9]{4}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})',
$record, $gotten);
$yikes = 1 + (strpos("GenFebMarAprMagGiuLugAgoSetOttNovDic",
$gotten[2]))/3; # Date "Alpha Triplet" to Month No.
$time = mktime($gotten[4],$gotten[5],$gotten[6],
$yikes,$gotten[1],$gotten[3]);
$when = date('d/M/Y', $time); //this is solution one, recommended
$when = substr($time, 0, -15); //this is solution two
return $when;
}
EDIT:
Remain your previous code and modify below part:
$records = explode("\n",$stuff);
TO:
$rec = str_replace(":00:00:00 -0000", "", $stuff);
$records = explode("\n",$rec);
Second EDIT:
Change: (Change two places)
$result = implode("<br />",$records);
To:
$result = implode("<br />",str_replace(":00:00:00 -0000", "", $stuff));