either-date.php

<?php

$unknown_format = [
    '2023/05/02',
    '05/02/2023',
];

foreach ($unknown_format as $fmt) {
    echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime($fmt)) . PHP_EOL;
}

wordsToNumber.php

<?php

/**
 * Convert a string such as "one hundred thousand" to 100000.00.
 *
 * @param string $data The numeric string.
 * @return float or false on error
 */
function wordsToNumber($data) {
    // Replace all number words with an equivalent numeric value
    $data = strtr(
        $data,
        array(
            'zero'      => '0',
            'a'         => '1',
            'one'       => '1',
            'two'       => '2',
            'three'     => '3',
            'four'      => '4',
            'five'      => '5',
            'six'       => '6',
            'seven'     => '7',
            'eight'     => '8',
            'nine'      => '9',
            'ten'       => '10',
            'eleven'    => '11',
            'twelve'    => '12',
            'thirteen'  => '13',
            'fourteen'  => '14',
            'fifteen'   => '15',
            'sixteen'   => '16',
            'seventeen' => '17',
            'eighteen'  => '18',
            'nineteen'  => '19',
            'twenty'    => '20',
            'thirty'    => '30',
            'forty'     => '40',
            'fourty'    => '40', // EU spelling
            'fifty'     => '50',
            'sixty'     => '60',
            'seventy'   => '70',
            'eighty'    => '80',
            'ninety'    => '90',
            'hundred'   => '100',
            'thousand'  => '1000',
            'million'   => '1000000',
            'billion'   => '1000000000',
            'and'       => '',
        )
    );

    // Coerce all tokens to numbers
    $parts = array_map(
        function ($val) {
            return floatval($val);
        },
        preg_split('/[\s-]+/', $data)
    );

    $stack = new SplStack;
    $sum   = 0;
    $last  = null;

    foreach ($parts as $part) {
        if (!$stack->isEmpty()) {
            if ($stack->top() > $part) {
                if ($last >= 1000) {
                    $sum += $stack->pop();
                    $stack->push($part);
                } else {
                    $stack->push($stack->pop() + $part);
                }
            } else {
                $stack->push($stack->pop() * $part);
            }
        } else {
            $stack->push($part);
        }

        $last = $part;
    }

    return $sum + $stack->pop();
}