[ciapug] handy little thing...

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I was converting some dates this morning and found this nice little
tidbit of code. I tweaked a bit for my needs.  If you convert a lot a
dates back and forth, this one is pretty handy:


function date_convert($date,$type){
  $date_year=substr($date,0,4);
  $date_month=substr($date,5,2);
  $date_day=substr($date,8,2);
  if($type == 1):
  	// Returns the year Ex: 2003
  	$date=date("Y", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 2):
  	// Returns the month Ex: January
  	$date=date("F", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 3):
  	// Returns the short form of month Ex: Jan
  	$date=date("M", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 4):
  	// Returns numerical representation of month with leading zero Ex:
Jan = 01, Feb = 02
  	$date=date("m", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 5):
  	// Returns numerical representation of month without leading zero Ex:
Jan = 1, Feb = 2
  	$date=date("n", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 6):
  	// Returns the day of the week Ex: Monday
  	$date=date("l", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 7):
  	// Returns the day of the week in short form Ex: Mon, Tue
  	$date=date("D", mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 8):
  	// Returns a combo ExL Wed,Nov 12th,2003
  	$date=date("D, M jS, Y",
mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 9):
  	// Returns a combo Ex: November 12th,2003
  	$date=date("F jS, Y",
mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));
  elseif($type == 10):
  	// Returns a combo ExL Wednesday, November 12th,2003
  	$date=date("l, F jS, Y",
mktime(0,0,0,$date_month,$date_day,$date_year));

  endif;
  return $date;
};




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