PHP中不同日期格式的字符串操作

Question

I have this

04/09/2014

string coming from a php variable $date how I want it to change to

04 Sep 2014

Any idea how can I do this . One way I thought was to

 $date1 = explode ("/",$date);

and then

 match $date1[1] == "string containing the month name "

Any other solution which is more easier or better ??

Thanks & Regards

Answer 1

You could use PHP's DateTime API (from PHP 5) :

//input date format
$in='04/09/2014';
$date=\DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $in);
$out=$date->format('d M Y');
//prints 04 Sep 2014
echo $out;

See php docs : http://php.net/manual/en/intro.datetime.php