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Arijit Aich
Arijit Aich

Reputation: 161

Convert "Day Date Of Month YYYY" To YYYY-MM-DD In Php

How to convert "Friday 20th of March 2015" into "2015-03-20" in Php ?

Options Tried (Failed):

$time = strtotime(stripslashes("Friday 20th of March 2015"));
echo date("Y-m-d",$time);


$time = strtotime("Friday 20th of March 2015");
echo date("Y-m-d",$time);

Option 2 (Failed):

$old_date = date('Friday 20th of March 2015');           
$old_date_timestamp = strtotime($old_date);
$new_date = date('Y-m-d', $old_date_timestamp);   
echo $new_date;

Option 3 (Failed):

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('l d of F Y', 'Friday 20th of March 2015');
$new_date_format = $date->format('Y-m-d');
echo $new_date_format;

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 400

Answers (1)

Arijit Aich
Arijit Aich

Reputation: 161

This Code Works:

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('l dS \o\f F Y', 'Friday 20th of March 2015');
        $new_date_format = $date->format('Y-m-d');
        echo $new_date_format;

Upvotes: 1

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