PHP以特定格式自动更正日期

Question

In my code users post date in content. Which is may be in different formats the format which is used in majority auto sets in MySQL date time field format i.e. yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss. My problem is most of them have typo mistakes or different formats which my code doesn't pick correctly and it returns date something like this 1970-01-01 05:00:00. I am in deep from this issue. Is there any function that auto corrects the date time even if there is a typo mistake in it and if time is not available it auto adds the time to it?

Here are some examples of different formats I get

30 September 2017 | 09 31 AM
29 September 2017 | 02:30 PM
27/07/2016 | 08:20 PM
19/09/2017| 01:32 PM
14-July-2017 03:31 PM
September 5 2017
April 7 2016 04:55 PM

Here is my current PHP code

$get_date = ""; //Date in text form
$show_dated = strtotime(str_replace('|', '', $get_date);
$get_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $show_dated);
echo $get_date;

Answer 1

Try using date_parse() instead of strtotime(). I did this for a while, and it functioned better. Ultimately my solution was to build a custom parser based on the confused mess of user inputs. I eyeballed 2000 entries to develop a 'gold standard' set of results, and then fine-tuned an algorithm to match until it performed 100% correctly.