note 102730 deleted from function.date by danbrown

Note Submitter: jaimthorn at yahoo dot com 

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<?php

/**
 *  YA date converter. This function does NOT check if the supplied date is legal; it works according to the GIGO principle.
 *
 *  @param  string  $date       the input date.
 *  @param  string  $format_in  the format in which the input date is supplied.  ASSERT( strlen( $date ) === strlen( $format_in ) )
 *  @param  string  $format_out the format in which the output date has to be returned.
 *  @return string              the date in the format of $format_out.
 */
function YA_date_converter( $date, $format_in, $format_out )
{
    $len = min( strlen( $date ), strlen( $format_in ) );
    for( $i = 0; $i < $len; ++$i ) {
        if( false !== ( $pos = strpos( $format_out, substr( $format_in, $i, 1 ) ) ) ) {
            $format_out = substr( $format_out, 0, $pos ) . substr( $date, $i, 1 ) . substr( $format_out, $pos + 1 );
        }
    }

    return $format_out;
}

//  Feel free to figure out how it works. :-)
echo YA_date_converter( '02-03-2011', 'dd-mm-yyyy', 'yyyymmdd'                              ), PHP_EOL;     //  20110302
echo YA_date_converter( '02-03-2011', '!@-#$-%^&*', '*&^%$#@!'                              ), PHP_EOL;     //  11023020
echo YA_date_converter( '02/03-2011', 'DD MM YYYY', 'the year is YYYY, month MM, day DD'    ), PHP_EOL;     //  the/year-is 2011, month 03, day 02