How to format this string to a date format?

Question

There is a string posted from a web page form : Jul 21 2015. It represents a date but needs to be formatted. How to format it to be 2015-07-21 ?

possible duplicate of [Convert one date format into another in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2167916/convert-one-date-format-into-another-in-php) — Sougata Bose, Jul 21 '15 at 08:46

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '15 at 08:49

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$string = "Jul 21 2015";
$time = date("Y-m-j", strtotime($string));

answered Jul 21 '15 at 08:49

Ben

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