date format change from string

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Strtotime() doesn’t work with dd/mm/YYYY format

I have this variable which i get the info like this:

echo $start=$_REQUEST['to'];

It outputs something like this:

2/04/2012

What i need is to convert it like this: 20120402 Could you please help me? I tried strotime and no success.. I tried converting the string before in a date format, then i converted it in a Ymd format, but i kept receiving a strange date, something like 1970 ! I tried this:

$time = strtotime( $date );
$myDate = date( 'y-m-d', $time );

thanks!

Please show complete code which does not work. Dates being formatted as 1970 typically means `strtotime` could not parse the date format and returned `0` == 1/1/1970. In your case `strtotime` does seem to parse the format correctly, and the `date` call should work just fine. The question is incoherent. — deceze, Dec 04 '12 at 08:23
$d = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '23/02/2012'); $d->format('Y-m-d'); — galchen, Dec 04 '12 at 16:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '12 at 09:23

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It may work.

<?php
$start=$_REQUEST['to'];
$date = explode("/",$start);
$size = sizeof($date);
for($i=$size;$i>=0;$i--) {
    $date_get .= $date[$i];
}
echo $date_get;
?>

answered Dec 04 '12 at 09:23

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 04 '12 at 08:25

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You should use strftime instead of date.

$myDate = strftime('%Y%m%d', $time);

edited Dec 04 '12 at 08:25

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answered Dec 04 '12 at 08:10

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In fact.. this worked for me :) why - sign? – al_alb Dec 04 '12 at 08:14
The difference between `strftime` and `date` is that `strftime` format date/time according to locale settings. Could that be the reason? – Stanley Dec 04 '12 at 08:20

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