One explode function for two date formats - php

Question

I have two PHP variable $consult_date_arr and $consultationdate.the user can insert any date format consider for now 22-12-2014 or 22/12/2014.what i want to do is i want to write a explode function which should work for both the condition i.e. for both the date formats.
$consult_date_arr=explode("/",$consultationdate);
$consult_date_arr=explode("-",$consultationdate);
The explode function should be the combination of above two explode function in functionality,such date it works for both the formats.if any doubt please let me know.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

try something like this
<?php
$date = '22/12/2014';
$keywords = preg_split("/[-,\/]+/", $date);
print_r($keywords);
?>
preg_split — Split string by a regular expression
REFERENCE
http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php

Answer 2

<?php
$dt = "1992-05-30";
//$dt = "1992/05/30";
function expld($date){
$date = str_replace("/", "-", $date);
$date = explode("-",$date);
return $date;
}
$newdate = expld($dt);
echo $newdate[0];
?>

Answer 3

you can write custom function and call explode inside it
like
$string = "-" OR "/" Or whatever you want to explode with
function dateFormat($string,$date)
{
$consult_date_arr=explode($string,$consultationdate);
return $consult_date_arr;
}

Answer 4

you will need regular expression, using preg_match in php.
<?php
$consult_date_arr;
$consultationdate = '22/12/2014';
if(preg_match('/[\d]{2}-[\d]{2}-[\d]{4}/', $consultationdate)){
$consult_date_arr = explode('-', $consultationdate);
}else if(preg_match('/[\d]{2}\/[\d]{2}\/[\d]{4}/', $consultationdate)){
$consult_date_arr = explode('/', $consultationdate);
}
var_dump($consult_date_arr);
?>

Answer 5

Hi check the code below,
<?php
if(!function_exists('date_explode')){
function date_explode($date){
$explode_date = array();
$delimiter = '';
if(strstr($date, '/')){
$delimiter = '/';
}elseif(strstr($date, '-')){
$delimiter = '-';
}
if(!empty($delimiter)){
$explode_date = explode($delimiter, $date);
}
return $explode_date;
}
}
$consult_date_arr=date_explode('22-12-2014');
print_r($consult_date_arr);
$consult_date_arr=date_explode('22/12/2014');
print_r($consult_date_arr);
?>
fiddle example
P.S.: Please do validation its a must, validation will prevent you from this type of issues