Convert Date in format Day MM DD, Year(e.g Wed Aug 17, 2016) to yyyy-mm-dd in PHP

Question

I have a date value in the format of Day MM dd, yyyy (e.g. Wed Aug 17, 2016) in PHP and I want to convert it to the format yyyy-mm-dd (2016-08-dd).

I have tried following:

$journeyDate = 'Wed Aug 17, 2016';
$time =strtotime(stripslashes($journeyDate));
echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime($time));

But the above code converts the date to desired format but returns date as 1970-01-01 which is wrong. What can I do to fix this problem?

Answer 1

You're applying strtotime twice - once when initializing $time and once again when applying date to it. Remove one of them and you should be OK:

$journeyDate = 'Wed Aug 17, 2016';
$time = strtotime(stripslashes($journeyDate));
echo date("Y-m-d", $time);
# Here ------------^

Answer 2

Use theDateTime Class like so:

    <?php

        $journeyDate    = 'Wed Aug 17, 2016';
        $jdObjDT        = new DateTime($journeyDate);

        var_dump($jdObjDT->format("Y-m-d"));
        // PRODUCES::: string '2016-08-17' (length=10)