Date from numeric to sring PHP

Question

Does anyone have a better way of the below? Basically I want to echo the date in 11 Aug 2019 format after the user had entered in DD MM YYYY format.

  $dateD = "14";
  $dateM = "02";
  $dateY = "2019";

  echo $dateD, (" ");

  if ($dateM === "01") {
    echo "Jan";
  } else if ($dateM === "02") {
    echo "Feb";
  } else if ($dateM === "03") {
    echo "Mar";
  } else if ($dateM === "04") {
    echo "Apr";
  } else if ($dateM === "05") {
    echo "May";
  } else if ($dateM === "06") {
    echo "Jun";
  } else if ($dateM === "07") {
    echo "Jul";
  } else if ($dateM === "08") {
    echo "Aug";
  } else if ($dateM === "09") {
    echo "Sep";
  } else if ($dateM === "10") {
    echo "Oct";
  } else if ($dateM === "11") {
    echo "Nov";
  } else if ($dateM === "12") {
    echo "Dec";
  }

  echo (" "), $dateY;

Possible duplicate of [Cant fromat String to Date](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42947680/cant-fromat-string-to-date) — JON, Sep 17 '19 at 05:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '19 at 23:55

5

You can use strtotime() to parse a time string, and use date() to format it.

echo date('d M Y', strtotime("$dateY-$dateM-$dateD"));

answered Sep 16 '19 at 23:55

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Date from numeric to sring PHP

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