php：按时间顺序排序表示日期的字符串数组

Question

how could i convert this exemple of string values array:

$taba=array('12/04/12','13/05/13','03/01/12');

to date type values, sort these dates chronogically before returning them as strings in a select option HTML input ?

Answer 1

$taba=array('12/04/12','13/05/13','03/01/12');
function todate($date){
     // as Legionar comment your date format is wrong .. can't guess which is date, which is year..
     // if year is the last numbers you must change the return to ..
     // return strtotime(implode("-",array_reverse(explode("/",$date))));
     return strtotime(str_replace("/","-",$date));
}

$map = array_map('todate', $taba);
sort($map);
echo "<select>";
foreach($map as $key=>$value) {
    echo '<option>'.date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $value)."</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

Sorry I missed the sort point. Here is with sorting :) You can generate the wished date format at the foreach date function..