PHP - Converting a string into various date formats

Question

I am new to PHP and cannot figure out the best method to convert two strings I have from URL params.

I would like to convert: "August 2010" to ---> "2010-08-%"

and also: "2010" to ---> "2010-%-%"

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can do those by learn to using these 2 following functions
strtotime http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
date http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Answer 2

You can use the strtotime function with date:

echo date('Y-m', strtotime('August 2010'));

Just adjust the format parameter to the date function to get the result in the format you are looking for. You might want to append the % part after convert the date format.