How to convert ISO8601 to Date format in php

Solution 1:

try this

$date = '2014-03-13T09:05:50.240Z';

$fixed = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

The complete date function documentation can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

The PHP function "strtotime" does nothing else then converting your timestring into an unix timestamp.

Hope I could help :)

P.s.: Just in case strtotime will return 0 try using this:

$date = '2014-03-13T09:05:50.240Z';

$fixed = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(substr($date,0,10)));

Since PHP 5.2.0 you can do it using OOP and DateTime() as well (of course if you prefer OOP):

$now = new DateTime("2014-03-13T09:05:50.240Z");
echo $now->format('Y-m-d');    // MySQL datetime format