Strtotime() doesn't work with dd/mm/YYYY format

Question

I really like the strtotime() function, but the user manual doesn\'t give a complete description of the supported date formats. strtotime(\'dd/mm/YYYY\')<

Answer 1

fastest should probably be

false!== ($date !== $date=preg_replace(';[0-2]{2}/[0-2]{2}/[0-2]{2};','$3-$2-$1',$date))

this will return false if the format does not look like the proper one, but it wont-check wether the date is valid