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Bilal
Bilal

Reputation: 265

php convert two different date formats into single date format

How would I change Following strings into specific customized format using php.

CHANGE
11/16/2012
11-16-2012

To
2012-16-11

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1593

Answers (4)

5hahiL
5hahiL

Reputation: 1076

$oldDate = '11/16/2012';
$newDate = date('Y-d-m',strtotime($date1));

Use combinations here to get exact output format: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Upvotes: 0

JackLB
JackLB

Reputation: 110

$date = strtodate(11-16-2012);
$ans = date('Y-d-Y',$date);
echo $ans;

Upvotes: 0

Leri
Leri

Reputation: 12525

You can use class DateTime to make it easier working with dates.

Here's sample code for your input/output:

<?php
$date = new DateTime('11/16/2012');
echo $date->format('Y-d-Y');

Edit: you can use following regex pattern \d+/\d+/\d+ to extract date from long string.

Upvotes: 1

sberry
sberry

Reputation: 132138

Not sure if you are asking how to get Year-Month-Year, or how to handle either hyphens or slashes, so the funkyDateString function does both:

function funkyDateString($date) {
    return date("Y-m-Y", strtotime(preg_replace('#-#', '/', $date)));
}

echo funkyDateString("11/16/2012");
echo funkyDateString("11-16-2012");

If you need the date formatted differently, then look up the formatting options in php's date docs

Upvotes: 0

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