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Alejandro Ariza
Asked: 2022-10-21 19:43:04 +0800 CST 2022-10-21 19:43:04 +0800 CST

change php date format

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I try to do it this way but the date change does not work for me, if someone can help me

$originalDate = "19/10/2022";
$timestamp = strtotime($originalDate); 
$newDate = date("Y-m-d", $timestamp );
echo  $newDate;
php

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You would have to initialize the variable $timestampas an object type DateTime()and then change the date format to it like this:

    $newDate = $timestamp->format('Y-m-d');

    Your final code would look like this:

    $originalDate = "19-10-2022";
$timestamp = new DateTime($originalDate);
$newDate = $timestamp->format('Y-m-d');

echo  $newDate; // 2022-10-19

    If you want to use dates that contain /, you would have to replace the /with -since DateTime() only accepts dates with -. For this case, you would use str_replace:

    str_replace('/', '-', $originalDate)

    And your code would look like this:

    $originalDate = "19/10/2022";
$timestamp = new DateTime(str_replace('/', '-', $originalDate));
$newDate = $timestamp->format('Y-m-d');

echo  $newDate; // 2022-10-19
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