Converting String to DateFormat

Question

I have this data | 01 Oktober 2017 |

This is an Indonesian date

And i want to convert into dateformat. And so the result must be 2017-10-01. Can you please help ?

Possible duplicate of [Converting string to Date and DateTime](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6238992/converting-string-to-date-and-datetime) — BenRoob, Oct 06 '17 at 09:30
this is an indonesian date, in datepicker, language set it to (id). i use strtotime it gives me result 1970-01-01. and this is wrong — Sandhi Zukhruf, Oct 06 '17 at 09:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '17 at 09:39

You need to convert dates with the month name in Indonesian into PHP readable date formats.

function getDate($indonesianMonthName){

  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US');

  $month_numbers = range(1,12);

  foreach($month_numbers as $month)
    $english_months[] = strftime('%B',mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,2011));

  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Indonesian');

  foreach($month_numbers as $month)
    $indonesian_months[] = strftime('%B',mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,2011));

  return str_replace($indonesian_months, $english_months, $indonesianMonthName);

}

echo getDate('01 Desember 2017');
echo getDate('01 Oktober 2017');

So basically, you create an array of every single month and its corresponding value in English and Indonesian, and then you use str_replace() to "translate" the date into English.

You can now use regulat strtotime() and Date() functions on the returned string.

References : https://stackoverflow.com/a/39874682/6124528

Sean Konig · Answer 2 · 2017-10-06T09:29:08.377

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Use strtotime,

$date = strtotime($_POST['fixtureDate']);
    $fixtureDate = date("Y-m-j", $date);

You can then play with the format so that it displays how you want it to

edited Oct 06 '17 at 09:29

answered Oct 06 '17 at 09:20

Sean Konig

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A comment should have worked perfectly + link-only answers are evil. Imagine once the target page gets deleted, so you will have a dead link. Put the essential part of the target page into your answer. Whit such answer you are decreasing the quality of SO – B001ᛦ Oct 06 '17 at 09:22
this is an indonesian date, in datepicker, language set it to (id). i use strtotime it gives me result 1970-01-01. and this is wrong – Sandhi Zukhruf Oct 06 '17 at 09:35
hey, you need to update the format "Y-m-j". Have a look here http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php – Sean Konig Oct 06 '17 at 09:38
The date is in Indonesian, you cannot merely `strtotime()` it. – Manav Oct 06 '17 at 09:41

Converting String to DateFormat

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