Excel Date to PHP date

[sank06]

for converting mm/dd/yy to yyyy-mm-dd, I used this code
list($d, $m, $y) = preg_split('/\//', $normal_date);

$mydate = sprintf('%4d%02 d%02d', $y, $m, $d);
print $mydate;

following date is not converted
10/20/2011 ( that is to say, if both month and date are 2 digts)

whereas rest of the excel dates are being converted
2/12/2011
6/10/2011

pl help

[dlite922]

use mktime function to convert to time. Then give that to the date function choosing the format that you want.

$mydate = date('Y-m-D',mktime(0,0,0,$d,$m,$y));

[pradeepkr13]

For me it's working fine.

Also, I agree with "dlite22", you should use PHP provided functions extensively to avoid any bugs and all.

You can also thik of getting rid of regex preg_split() it slows down the execution. Use some string based functions to split it up

[pradeepkr13]

@dlite22,
I think it should be small d in place of capital D in date()

$mydate = date('Y-m-d',mktime(0,0,0,$d,$m,$y));