Convert date format from Y-m-d H:i:s into dmy

Question

I have a date time in string with format Y-m-d H:i:s like this:

$dateTime = '2018-07-06 18:53:21';

i want to conver it into dmy format, like this:

$convertedDateTime = $this->convertDateTime($dateTime);
echo $convertedDateTime;

and the result i expected from above echo is 060718, how can i achieve this?

Simply use `date_format($date,'dmy');` – Dee Jul 10 '18 at 08:54 — Dee, Jul 10 '18 at 08:54

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '18 at 08:51

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You can use date_format like this:

echo date_format($date,"Y/m/d H:i:s");  //e.g. 2013/03/15 00:00:00
echo date_format($date,"dmy");   //e.g. 150313    -- Y capital would return 2013

answered Jul 10 '18 at 08:51

Danyal Sandeelo

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ah yeah, forgot about date_format - nice and clean :) – treyBake Jul 10 '18 at 08:51
got this error: `Warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTimeInterface, string given in` – Tiny Dancer Jul 10 '18 at 09:11
your are passing string instead of date, in your case you will pass $convertedDateTime as the parameter – Danyal Sandeelo Jul 10 '18 at 09:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '18 at 08:51

there's two methods to use:

usage example:

$myDate = '2018-07-06 09:49:00';
$myDate = date('d-m-y', strtotime($myDate));

but more often than not you'll want to use DateTime https://secure.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php:

$myDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2018-07-06 09:49:00');
$$newDate = $myDate->format('d-m-Y');

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '18 at 08:51

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\DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2018-07-06 18:53:21')->format('dmy');

answered Jul 10 '18 at 08:51

mrf

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