Convert 23/01/2012 to 20120123

Is it possible to change the date format from 23/01/2012 to 20120123??
Thanks
Rob

$date="23/01/2012";
$parts=explode("/",$date);
$newdate=$parts[2].$parts[1].$parts[0];
echo $newdate;

$date="23/01/2012";
$parts=explode("/",$date);
$newdate=$parts[2].$parts[1].$parts[0];
echo $newdate;

Exactly what I was just about to post :D

Wow, got a bad rep point for having a personality, and agreeing with someone.

what is a rep point?

Reputation point. Under your name where you have all the green boxes - that's your reputation (kudos btw :thumbsup:). You can see the latest ones on your 'User CP'. You can give neutral, positive or negative points. You give them by clicking the wee medal, next to 'Report post'

I guess I never knew what that meant ... what good is it ...
Doesn't look like we can cash it in for anything.

stupid idea.

Rep is a builtin feature of the vB3+, and I believe thanks is an extension. They are pretty much the same thing really, except there is no 'chastise user for this post' option :D

Also, another way to do this using 5.3+ uses the datetime:

$sDate = '23/01/2012';
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $sDate);
print $dt->format('Ymd');

The pro with this is since its an actual datetime type, it is locale aware so you can add a timezone to correct the date if desired.