title: Extracting date from a string in PHP
body: <p>How can I extract the date from an arbitrary string such as "Joe Soap was born on 12 February 1981"?</p>
  
  <p>Python has a wonderful fuzzy parsing functionality provided by <code>python-dateutil</code> as described in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3276180/extracting-date-from-a-string-in-python">this question</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for a library that provides the same type of functionality in PHP.</p>