Change Date format in PHP

4 years ago
Zaid Bin Khalid
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In this tutorial, I am going to show you how can you change date format in PHP. You can use PHP default functions to change the date format. I am going to use strtotime() and date() together to change the date format. let’s begin.

strtotime ( string $time [, int $now = time() ] ) : int
date ( string $format [, int $timestamp = time() ] ) : string

Change YYYY-MM-DD to MM-DD-YYYY

Mysql default date format is Year-Month-Date that is why every PHP developer has with a problem.

<?php
$date		= 	"2019-02-08";
$newDate1 	= 	date("m-d-Y", strtotime($date));
$newDate2 	= 	date("l M, d, Y", strtotime($date));
?>

The output will be. You can change the format as per your need for that you need to change the format character listed below.

echo $newDate1;
08-02-2019 //Output
echo $newDate2;
Friday Feb, 08, 2019 //Output

You can change date format with the help of explode() see below example. But this is not a good way to change the date format.

$date		=	'2019-02-08';
$arr		=	explode('-',$date);
$newDate	=	$arr[2].'-'.$arr[1].'-'.$arr[0];

The output will be.

echo $newDate;
08-02-2019 //Output

4 years ago
Zaid Bin Khalid
32749 Views
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