PHP date is always being returned as 01 January 1970 and strftime not translating

Question

Ok, there's tons of questions about this and i try most of the solutions i found there without success.

I have a form passing a date in this format to the PHP function: 26/11/2014

In the function i have to transform it in other forms and this is my code:

$date_1 = date('d F Y', strtotime($_REQUEST['date']));
setlocale (LC_TIME, 'de_DE');
$date_transl = strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($_REQUEST['date']));

In both case i'm having returned 01 January 1970 so i'm facing 2 problems:

1) date returned is wrong

2) strftime is not translating the date

Answer 1

Replace the / characters with - and it will do the job:

$_REQUEST['date'] = str_replace('/','-',$_REQUEST['date']);
$date_1 = date('d F Y', strtotime($_REQUEST['date']));
setlocale (LC_TIME, 'de_DE');
$date_transl = strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($_REQUEST['date']));

Answer 2

Try

$date_1 = date('d F Y', strtotime(str_replace('/','-','26/11/2014')));