what is the date format mysql code example

Example 1: mysql format date

DATE_FORMAT(date, format)
-- E.g.
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(dateField, '%m/%d/%Y') FROM TableName;
-- See https://www.mysqltutorial.org/mysql-date_format/ for available formats

Example 2: MySQL datetime format

use \Datetime;

$now = new DateTime();
echo $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');    // MySQL datetime format
echo $now->getTimestamp();           // Unix Timestamp -- Since PHP 5.3