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yyyy/mm/dd instead expected dd/mm/yyyy format in PHP-created-HTML output
I have an HTML-PHP-CSS contact form with a date field:
<input type="date" name="date" id="cf_input_date"></input>
- The default value in this field is the W3C built-in default:
dd/mm/yyyy - The date-picking pattern in this field is the W3C built-in default
dd/mm/yyyy
My problem
Everything was allegedly fine until I printed this HTML as output to my email box (via PHP).
In my email box, the output pattern for picked dates is the exact opposite of the pattern I already use in the form:
yyyy/mm/dd
Things I have tried to solve it
-
dir="ltr"ordir="rtl"attributes-values anddirection: ltrordirection: rtlproperties-values don't help in flipping the output - Various CSS tricks all ended in failure
- Sadly I can't use JavaScript comfortably in this case because the email output appears in a third party email client which doesn't easily allow JavaScript manipulation of the DOM
My question
How to ensure that my HTML-PHP output is in dd/mm/yyyy pattern (as default for the input field itself) instead the "flipped" yyyy/mm/dd?
Post
The date is sent in the form submission in ISO 8601 format (year-month-day). You can reformat it in the form handler as follows:
$input_date = $_REQUEST['cf_input_date'];
if ($input_date)
{
$input_date = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d", $input_date)->format("d/m/Y");
}
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