Use PHP's date() formats in moment.js

moment.phpDateFormat.js

(function(m){
	/*
	 * PHP => moment.js
	 *
	 * http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
	 * http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/
	 */
	var formatMap = {
		d: 'DD',
		D: 'ddd',
		j: 'D',
		l: 'dddd',
		N: 'E',
		S: function(){
			return '['+this.format('Do').replace(/\d*/g, '')+']';
		},
		w: 'd',
		z: function(){
			return this.format('DDD') - 1;
		},
		W: 'W',
		F: 'MMMM',
		m: 'MM',
		M: 'MMM',
		n: 'M',
		t: function(){
			return this.daysInMonth();
		},
		L: function(){
			return this.isLeapYear() ? 1 : 0;
		},
		o: 'GGGG',
		Y: 'YYYY',
		y: 'YY',
		a: 'a',
		A: 'A',
		B: function(){
			var thisUTC = this.clone().utc(),
				// Shamelessly stolen from http://javascript.about.com/library/blswatch.htm
				swatch = ((thisUTC.hours()+1) % 24) + (thisUTC.minutes() / 60) + (thisUTC.seconds() / 3600);
			return Math.floor(swatch * 1000 / 24);
		},
		g: 'h',
		G: 'H',
		h: 'hh',
		H: 'HH',
		i: 'mm',
		s: 'ss',
		u: '[u]', // not sure if moment has this
		e: '[e]', // moment does not have this
		I: function(){
			return this.isDST() ? 1 : 0;
		},
		O: 'ZZ',
		P: 'Z',
		T: '[T]', // deprecated in moment
		Z: function(){
			return parseInt(this.format('ZZ'), 10) * 36;
		},
		c: 'YYYY-MM-DD[T]HH:mm:ssZ',
		r: 'ddd, DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ',
		U: 'X'
	},
	formatEx = /[dDjlNSwzWFmMntLoYyaABgGhHisueIOPTZcrU]/g;

	m.fn.formatPHP = function(format){
		var that = this;
		
		return this.format(format.replace(formatEx, function(phpStr){
		  return typeof formatMap[phpStr] === 'function' ? formatMap[phpStr].call(that) : formatMap[phpStr];
		}));
	};
}(moment));

Thank you for this :-)

I have a problem. If I use this line of code:

moment.fn.formatPHP("d.m.Y h:i");

then a got the following error:

TypeError: m._d is undefined  (moment-with-locale.js line 79)

I use the latest moment.js 2.10.2. Am I doing something wrong or is it an error of this script?

In case anyone stumbles upon this you have to make some changes to get it to work. i went ahead and made a new Gist to make it easier.
Located Here
https://gist.github.com/phpmypython/f97c5f5f59f2a934599d