title: converting and sorting dates in PHP
body: <p>I am trying to sort a table of dates, yet the problem that I seem to have is that these dates are strings formatted as <code>d M Y</code> (so something like <code>"04 SEPT 2016"</code>). </p>
  
  <p>I'm assuming that these dates are not stored as timestamps in the database (if that makes sense), but rather as a normal string that needs to be converted back into something that can be sorted.</p>