PHP Change Date Format DD/MM/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD by Intecsols

In this post, I would like to tell you about “How to change date format DD/MM/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD in PHP”. I will convert date format using simple date() and simple strtotime() functions of php.

I will give you very quick and simple example that helps you a-lot to simply change date formats in php. It not only for DD/MM/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD. You can also convert them in other formats also. I will show just few of them.

Mostly want to change date formats when we need to insert or retrieve date in database. So I will give you example that how it could be done.

So, let’s see the example:

1- Converting yyyy-mm-dd to mm/dd/yyyy

In this example I will add “2020-03-29” with (YYYY-MM-DD) format and I will change it into MM/DD/YYYY format using PHP.

<?php
$currentDate = "2020-03-29";

$convertedDate = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($currentDate));

print_r($convertedDate);
?>

Output:

03/29/2020

2- Convert yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy

In this example I will add “2020-03-29” with (YYYY-MM-DD) format and I will change it into DD-MM-YYYY format using PHP.

<?php
$currentDate = "2020-03-29";

$convertedDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($currentDate));

print_r($convertedDate);
?>

Output:

29-03-2020

3- Convert dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd

In this example, I will add “29/03/2020” with (DD/MM/YYYY) format and I will change it into YYYY-MM-DD format using php.

<?php
$currentDate = "29/03/2020";

$convertedDate = str_replace('/', '-', $currentDate );

$myNewDate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($convertedDate));

print_r($myNewDate);
?>

Output:

2020-03-29

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