Question

How to convert date from yyyy:mm:dd to yyyy-m-dd and yyyy:mm:dd (without leading zero for the month) to yyyy-m-dd (with leading zero to month)?

Answer 1

try this:

$dateFrom ="2012:8:2";
$dateTo =  str_replace(":","-",$dateFrom);
$dateTo = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($dateTo));
echo $dateTo;