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PHP Tutorial: Format Dates Taking Country Into Consideration

<?
/**************
* Purpose: Format dates with country in consideration
* Precondition: 2 letter country code the individual is from
* Postcondition: date is reformatted for that country
* Note: all available country abbreviations found here:
*       http://www.immigration-usa.com/country_digraphs.html
**************/
function formatDate($country)
{
   $delimiter = "/";

   //these countries should be formatted as day/month/year
   $international = array('UK', 'ES', 'FR', 'GB', 'IE');

    if (!$country)
       return;

    if (array_search($country, $international)) //reverse month and year
            return date('n') . $delimiter . date('j') . $delimiter . date('Y');
    else
            return date('j') . $delimiter . date('n') . $delimiter . date('Y');
}
?>

  • AF – Afghanistan
  • AX – Aland Islands
  • AL – Albania
  • DZ – Algeria
  • AS – American Samoa
  • AD – Andorra
  • AO – Angola
  • AI – Anguilla
  • AQ – Antarctica
  • AG – Antigua and Barbuda
  • AR – Argentina
  • AM – Armenia
  • AW – Aruba
  • AC – Ascension Island
  • AU – Australia
  • AT – Austria
  • AZ – Azerbaijan
  • BS – Bahamas
  • BH – Bahrain
  • BB – Barbados
  • BD – Bangladesh
  • BY – Belarus
  • BE – Belgium
  • BZ – Belize
  • BJ – Benin
  • BM – Bermuda
  • BT – Bhutan
  • BW – Botswana
  • BO – Bolivia
  • BA – Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • BV – Bouvet Island
  • BR – Brazil
  • IO – British Indian Ocean Territory
  • BN – Brunei Darussalam
  • BG – Bulgaria
  • BF – Burkina Faso
  • BI – Burundi
  • KH – Cambodia
  • CM – Cameroon
  • CA – Canada
  • CV – Cape Verde
  • KY – Cayman Islands
  • CF – Central African Republic
  • TD – Chad
  • CL – Chile
  • CN – China
  • CX – Christmas Island
  • CC – Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • CO – Colombia
  • KM – Comoros
  • CG – Congo
  • CD – Congo, Democratic Republic
  • CK – Cook Islands
  • CR – Costa Rica
  • CI – Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
  • HR – Croatia (Hrvatska)
  • CU – Cuba
  • CY – Cyprus
  • CZ – Czech Republic
  • CS – Czechoslovakia (former)
  • DK – Denmark
  • DJ – Djibouti
  • DM – Dominica
  • DO – Dominican Republic
  • TP – East Timor
  • EC – Ecuador
  • EG – Egypt
  • SV – El Salvador
  • GQ – Equatorial Guinea
  • ER – Eritrea
  • EE – Estonia
  • ET – Ethiopia
  • EU – European Union
  • FK – Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • FO – Faroe Islands
  • FJ – Fiji
  • FI – Finland
  • FR – France
  • FX – France, Metropolitan
  • GF – French Guiana
  • PF – French Polynesia
  • TF – French Southern Territories
  • MK – F.Y.R.O.M. (Macedonia)
  • GA – Gabon
  • GM – Gambia
  • GE – Georgia
  • DE – Germany
  • GH – Ghana
  • GI – Gibraltar
  • GB – Great Britain (UK)
  • GR – Greece
  • GL – Greenland
  • GD – Grenada
  • GP – Guadeloupe
  • GU – Guam
  • GT – Guatemala
  • GG – Guernsey
  • GN – Guinea
  • GW – Guinea-Bissau
  • GY – Guyana
  • HT – Haiti
  • HM – Heard and McDonald Islands
  • HN – Honduras
  • HK – Hong Kong
  • HU – Hungary
  • IS – Iceland
  • IN – India
  • ID – Indonesia
  • IR – Iran
  • IQ – Iraq
  • IE – Ireland
  • IL – Israel
  • IM – Isle of Man
  • IT – Italy
  • JE – Jersey
  • JM – Jamaica
  • JP – Japan
  • JO – Jordan
  • KZ – Kazakhstan
  • KE – Kenya
  • KI – Kiribati
  • KP – Korea (North)
  • KR – Korea (South)
  • KW – Kuwait
  • KG – Kyrgyzstan
  • LA – Laos
  • LV – Latvia
  • LB – Lebanon
  • LI – Liechtenstein
  • LR – Liberia
  • LY – Libya
  • LS – Lesotho
  • LT – Lithuania
  • LU – Luxembourg
  • MO – Macau
  • MG – Madagascar
  • MW – Malawi
  • MY – Malaysia
  • MV – Maldives
  • ML – Mali
  • MT – Malta
  • MH – Marshall Islands
  • MQ – Martinique
  • MR – Mauritania
  • MU – Mauritius
  • YT – Mayotte
  • MX – Mexico
  • FM – Micronesia
  • MC – Monaco
  • MD – Moldova
  • MN – Mongolia
  • ME – Montenegro
  • MS – Montserrat
  • MA – Morocco
  • MZ – Mozambique
  • MM – Myanmar
  • NA – Namibia
  • NR – Nauru
  • NP – Nepal
  • NL – Netherlands
  • AN – Netherlands Antilles
  • NT – Neutral Zone
  • NC – New Caledonia
  • NZ – New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • NI – Nicaragua
  • NE – Niger
  • NG – Nigeria
  • NU – Niue
  • NF – Norfolk Island
  • MP – Northern Mariana Islands
  • NO – Norway
  • OM – Oman
  • PK – Pakistan
  • PW – Palau
  • PS – Palestinian Territory, Occupied
  • PA – Panama
  • PG – Papua New Guinea
  • PY – Paraguay
  • PE – Peru
  • PH – Philippines
  • PN – Pitcairn
  • PL – Poland
  • PT – Portugal
  • PR – Puerto Rico
  • QA – Qatar
  • RE – Reunion
  • RO – Romania
  • RU – Russian Federation
  • RW – Rwanda
  • GS – S. Georgia and S. Sandwich Isls.
  • KN – Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • LC – Saint Lucia
  • VC – Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
  • WS – Samoa
  • SM – San Marino
  • ST – Sao Tome and Principe
  • SA – Saudi Arabia
  • SN – Senegal
  • RS – Serbia
  • YU – Serbia and Montenegro (former)
  • SC – Seychelles
  • SL – Sierra Leone
  • SG – Singapore
  • SI – Slovenia
  • SK – Slovak Republic
  • SB – Solomon Islands
  • SO – Somalia
  • ZA – South Africa
  • ES – Spain
  • LK – Sri Lanka
  • SH – St. Helena
  • PM – St. Pierre and Miquelon
  • SD – Sudan
  • SR – Suriname
  • SJ – Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands
  • SZ – Swaziland
  • SE – Sweden
  • CH – Switzerland
  • SY – Syria
  • TW – Taiwan
  • TJ – Tajikistan
  • TZ – Tanzania
  • TH – Thailand
  • TG – Togo
  • TK – Tokelau
  • TO – Tonga
  • TT – Trinidad and Tobago
  • TN – Tunisia
  • TR – Turkey
  • TM – Turkmenistan
  • TC – Turks and Caicos Islands
  • TV – Tuvalu
  • UG – Uganda
  • UA – Ukraine
  • AE – United Arab Emirates
  • UK – United Kingdom
  • US – United States
  • UM – US Minor Outlying Islands
  • UY – Uruguay
  • SU – USSR (former)
  • UZ – Uzbekistan
  • VU – Vanuatu
  • VA – Vatican City State (Holy See)
  • VE – Venezuela
  • VN – Viet Nam
  • VG – British Virgin Islands
  • VI – Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  • WF – Wallis and Futuna Islands
  • EH – Western Sahara
  • YE – Yemen
  • ZM – Zambia
  • (ZR – Zaire) – See CD Congo, Democratic Republic
  • ZW – Zimbabwe
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