php year of date code example

Example 1: php grab year from date

$year = date("y",strtotime($mydate));

Example 2: php format date

<?php
  // To change the format of an existing date
  $old_date_format = "20/03/1999";
  $new_data_format = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($old_date_format));