Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

[Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They don't.  The function always accepts MMDDYY as it's input, and 
YYYYMMDD as it's output.  It doesn't attempt to guess anything.

The formats, however, are really irrelevant to the example.  The same 
example works just as well if it's DDMMYY for input.  The point is that 
you don't have to code a separate function/procedure for every possible 
variable type.


On 4/20/2010 5:14 PM, hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Scott
>
> how do your generic subprocedure "guess" the dateformat in your numeric
> field in your example ??