From 18499b1b5cd927b57e66a1591f58159d5f9f9e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "U-XZ-PC\\XZ" <you@example.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:13:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tested locally

---
 src/date_formatter.php | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/date_formatter.php

diff --git a/src/date_formatter.php b/src/date_formatter.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd0a24e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/date_formatter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?php
+function validateDate($date, $format)
+{
+    $d = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $date);
+	//var_dump($d);
+    return $d && $d->format($format) == $date;
+}
+
+function date_formatter ($dateInput)
+{	
+	$digit = explode("-", $dateInput);# deal with '2-2-2'
+	if ($digit[0]<10){
+		$dateInput = "200".	$dateInput;
+	}
+
+	$validated = validateDate($dateInput, 'Y-m-d');
+	$validated = $validated||(validateDate($dateInput, 'Y-n-j'));
+	$validated = $validated||(validateDate($dateInput, 'y-n-j'));
+	if (!$validated) {
+		return "";
+	} else {
+		$date=date_create($dateInput);
+		return date_format($date,"l, F jS Y");	
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+$test = date_formatter ('2-2-2');
+//var_dump($test);
+echo $test;
+
+*/
+?>
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