What is the MM/DD/YYYY regular expression and how do I use it in php?

Question

I found the regular expression for MM/DD/YYYY at http://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy/datemmddyyyy.html but I don\'t think I am using it correctly.

Here\'s

Answer 1

Its probably better to use strtotime() which will convert nearly any human-readable date format to a unix timestamp. - http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php