How to change string date "2 February 2019" to date(Y-m-d)

Asked Feb 03 '19 at 21:47

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I used a screen scraper to get my date which looks like, 2 February 2019, I wish to change this string date to a date format Y-m-d. Can a string such as "2 February 2019" be converted to a PHP date(Y-m-d)?

I found this question different from others because none used my date format and none of the other questions worked for me.

I have tried strtotime but it gives me a day of 1970-01-01.

// Find date
$Date = $url->find("div.row-1", 0)->find("div.date", 0)->find("span", 0);
echo $Date . "<br>";
$Date1 = strtotime($Date);
$Date2 = date("Y-m-d", $Date1);
echo $Date2;

// Find date
$Date = $url->find("div.row-1", 0)->find("div.date", 0)->find("span", 0);
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($Date));

The first echo give me that correct date that I am looking for "2 February 2019" I wish to see this date as 2019-02-02.

I got the correct result using:

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime(trim(strip_tags($Date))));

edited Feb 03 '19 at 22:43

asked Feb 03 '19 at 21:47

Kelly

use format() function – episch Feb 03 '19 at 21:49
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It can https://3v4l.org/hOUV0 – user3783243 Feb 03 '19 at 21:50
@user3783243, I have tried that line "as is" and got the correct result. But if I put my $Date variable in I still get 1970-01-01. – Kelly Feb 03 '19 at 22:10
@emma the echo result was 1969-12-31. – Kelly Feb 03 '19 at 22:25
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`$Date` may have some HTML tags or some other chars that make `strtotime` to fail. Print `$Date` inside a `
```
` block to check this out.
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– isalgueiro Feb 03 '19 at 22:26
@emma Same result 1969-12-31 – Kelly Feb 03 '19 at 22:31
@emma echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime(trim(strip_tags($Date)))); WORKED Thank you so much – Kelly Feb 03 '19 at 22:38
In the future use `var_dump` to see what your actual string is. – user3783243 Feb 04 '19 at 04:01

How to change string date "2 February 2019" to date(Y-m-d)

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