Unable to convert date in valid format PHP

Question

I'm creating an application in which user enter a date and make a request. At server side I verify whether user has entered valid date or not . But what the problem comes is PHP isn't converting some of date user enters. For e.g if user selects 13/10/15 with jquery datetimpicker and I print it,

print_r(date('Y-m-d',strtotime($this->request->post['delivery_date'])));

And its showing

1970-01-01

So I tried to check if any error is there or not. To do so I tried

$date = date_parse($this->request->post['delivery_date']);
print_r($date);

And it's showing an error

[error_count] => 1
[errors] => Array
        (
            [0] => Unexpected character
        )

It works fine for other dates but not with some dates. What should I do? Any help will be appreciated.

User selects a date and click button. Then using ajax i check it for validation. — Vidhyut Pandya, Oct 05 '15 at 11:23
@ved pandya are you sending the date via ajax call .which type of method are you using and print your delivery date in the question — saurabh kamble, Oct 05 '15 at 11:26
Possible duplicate of [PHP date conversion to strtotime](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32499055/php-date-conversion-to-strtotime) — Narendrasingh Sisodia, Oct 05 '15 at 11:42

Federkun · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-05T11:29:58.117

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Forward slash (/) signifies American M/D/Y formatting, and there isn't a thirteenth month in our calendar.

print_r(date('Y-m-d',strtotime("10/13/15")));

Should be good. Or use DateTime::createFromFormat like

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/y', '13/10/15');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d'); // 2015-10-13

edited Oct 05 '15 at 11:29

answered Oct 05 '15 at 11:24

Federkun

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yes that's right but i don't want to change date format of my date-picker. So isn't there any solution? – Vidhyut Pandya Oct 05 '15 at 11:27
For `13/11/15` it prints `1970-01-01` but for `03/11/15` it prints `2015-03-11`. :| – Vidhyut Pandya Oct 05 '15 at 11:30
+1 For DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/y', '13/10/15'); :) Thanks. It works. But why strtotime not works same ? – Vidhyut Pandya Oct 05 '15 at 11:39
Because forward slash (/) signifies American `M/D/Y` in `strtotime`, like I wrote above – Federkun Oct 05 '15 at 11:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 11:30

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   $str = '24/12/2013';
   $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $str);
   echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

answered Oct 05 '15 at 11:30

Abhishek kadadi

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