Datetime to string php code example

Example 1: string to datetime php

$s = '06/10/2011 19:00:02';
$date = strtotime($s);
echo date('d/M/Y H:i:s', $date);

Example 2: php mysql date format

date("Y-m-d H:i:s")

Example 3: Datetime to string php

<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
?>

Example 4: time to string in php

<?php
$date = '27/06/2020, 04:42:43 PM';
$date = str_replace('/', '-', $date);
echo date('F j, Y, g:i a',strtotime($date));

// output : June 27, 2020, 4:42 pm
?>

Example 5: Convert DateTime to String in PHP

phpCopy$theDate    = new DateTime('2020-03-08');
echo $stringDate = $theDate->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

//output: 2020-03-08 00:00:00

Example 6: change datetime format from Y-m-d h:i:s to d-m-Y in php

$old_date = date('l, F d y h:i:s');              // returns Saturday, January 30 10 02:06:34
$old_date_timestamp = strtotime($old_date);
$new_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $old_date_timestamp);