Re: [PHP] regex - filtering out chinese utf8 characters

2009-07-30 Thread Stuart Connolly
Hi Merlin, I think the pattern you're looking for is '/[a-zA-Z0-9]/' which will match all alphanumeric characters. Cheers Stuart On 30 Jul 2009, at 19:13, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Hi there, I am trying to filter out content that is not ascii. Can I do this with regex? For example:

Re: [PHP] String to Date Conversion Problem

2009-07-31 Thread Stuart Connolly
Hi Alice, Based on the string format that you mentioned (DD MMM YY - DAY) you should be able to transform to any other date using the following: $parts = explode(' ', '23 JUL 09 - THURSDAY'); echo date('m/d/Y', strtotime("{$parts[1]} {$parts[0]} {$parts[2]}")); Cheers Stuart On 31 Jul 200