PHP convert date format dd/mm/yyyy => yyyy-mm-dd [duplicate]
Dates in the
m/d/y
ord-m-y
formats are disambiguated by looking at the separator between the various components: if the separator is a slash (/
), then the Americanm/d/y
is assumed; whereas if the separator is a dash (-
) or a dot (.
), then the Europeand-m-y
format is assumed. Check more here.
Use the default date function.
$var = "20/04/2012";
echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime($var) );
EDIT I just tested it, and somehow, PHP doesn't work well with dd/mm/yyyy format. Here's another solution.
$var = '20/04/2012';
$date = str_replace('/', '-', $var);
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));
Try Using DateTime::createFromFormat
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', "24/04/2012");
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
Output
2012-04-24
EDIT:
If the date is 5/4/2010 (both D/M/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY), this below method is used to convert 5/4/2010 to 2010-4-5 (both YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-M-D) format.
$old_date = explode('/', '5/4/2010');
$new_data = $old_date[2].'-'.$old_date[1].'-'.$old_date[0];
OUTPUT:
2010-4-5
Here's another solution not using date(). not so smart:)
$var = '20/04/2012';
echo implode("-", array_reverse(explode("/", $var)));
Do this:
date('Y-m-d', strtotime('dd/mm/yyyy'));
But make sure 'dd/mm/yyyy' is the actual date.