From a75454f5cf950e1f57383a3cea977ddb98d837ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Calvin Miracle <cbmira01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 15:13:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Create date_formatter.php

1st try at challenge
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 src/date_formatter.php | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 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..65f6f2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/date_formatter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+  function date_formatter($date) {
+    
+    // Deal with obviously bad date strings.
+    if (!preg_match ("/\d+-\d+-\d+/", $date) ) {
+        return "";
+    }
+    
+    // Validate dates.
+    $pieces = explode("-", $date);
+    $year = $pieces[0];
+    $month = $pieces[1];
+    $day = $pieces[2];
+    if (!checkdate ( $month , $day , $year ) ) {
+      return "";
+    }
+    
+    $timeStamp = date_timestamp_get ( date_create($date) );
+    $newFormat = date("l, F jS Y", $timeStamp);
+    
+    return $newFormat;
+  }
+
+?>