Converting an 8-digit integer into dd/mm/yyyy
date, date-conversion, php
Solution
An easy way to do it;
$int = 01042012;
$day = substr($int,0,2);
$month = substr($int,2,4);
$year = substr($int,4);
$date = $day.'/'.$month.'/'.$year;
Problem
So i have this function in my PHP script that is supposed to take the date as an 8-digit integer such as `01042012` and convert it to `01/04/2012` for displaying. Currently i'm trying to use php's `date()` function as follows: ``` $int = 01042012; $date = date("d/m/Y", $int); ``` Instead of `$date` having the value `01/04/2012` it shows as `13/01/1970`. Is this because `date()` wants the date i pass to it to be in unix time? If so, would there perhaps be a more direct way to split the int after characters 2 and 4 and just insert the slashes, then recombine it? Like what `explode()` does, but i have no character to split with.