Convert a date format in PHP

Question

I am trying to convert a date from yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy (but not in SQL); however I don\'t know how the date function requires a timestamp, and

Answer 1

function dateFormat($date)
{
    $m = preg_replace('/[^0-9]/', '', $date);
    if (preg_match_all('/\d{2}+/', $m, $r)) {
        $r = reset($r);
        if (count($r) == 4) {
            if ($r[2] <= 12 && $r[3] <= 31) return "$r[0]$r[1]-$r[2]-$r[3]"; // Y-m-d
            if ($r[0] <= 31 && $r[1] != 0 && $r[1] <= 12) return "$r[2]$r[3]-$r[1]-$r[0]"; // d-m-Y
            if ($r[0] <= 12 && $r[1] <= 31) return "$r[2]$r[3]-$r[0]-$r[1]"; // m-d-Y
            if ($r[2] <= 31 && $r[3] <= 12) return "$r[0]$r[1]-$r[3]-$r[2]"; //Y-m-d
        }

        $y = $r[2] >= 0 && $r[2] <= date('y') ? date('y') . $r[2] : (date('y') - 1) . $r[2];
        if ($r[0] <= 31 && $r[1] != 0 && $r[1] <= 12) return "$y-$r[1]-$r[0]"; // d-m-y
    }
}

var_dump(dateFormat('31/01/00')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('31/01/2000')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('01-31-2000')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('2000-31-01')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('20003101')); // return 2000-01-31