Datetime to date 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: format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); ?>

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

Example 3: 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);

Example 4: Convert String to Date and Date-Time in PHP

phpCopy$oldDate = strtotime('03/08/2020');

$newDate = date('Y-m-d',$time);

echo $newDate;
//output: 2020-03-08

Example 5: Convert String to Date and Date-Time in PHP

phpCopyecho $dateNew = date_create_from_format("m-d-Y", "03-08-2020")->format("Y-m-d");
//output: 2020/03/08