date_create_from_format equivalent for PHP 5.2 (or lower)
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Hi all,
I'm working with PHP 5.3 on my local machine and needed to parse a UK date format (dd/mm/yyyy).  I found that strtotime didn't work with that date format, so I used date_create_from_format instead - which works great.
Now, my problem is that my staging server is running PHP 5.2, and date_create_from_format doesn't work on that version. (It's a shared server, and wouldn't have a clue how to upgrade it to PHP 5.3)
So is there a similar function to date_create_from_format that I can use? Bespoke or PHP native?
Many thanks, - Lee
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