Get most recent date from an array of dates

Question

I have the array of dates below

array(5) { 
    [0]=> string(19) \"2012-06-11 08:30:49\" 
    [1]=> string(19) \"2012-06-07 08:03:54\" 
    [2]=> st         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

public function getLargerDate(array $datas) {
    $newDates = array();
    foreach($datas as $data){
        $newDates[strtotime($data)] = $data;
    }
    return $newDates[max(array_keys($newDates))];
}