Question

I am new to PHP and cannot figure out the best method to convert two strings I have from URL params.

I would like to convert:
“August 2010” to —> “2010-08-%”

and also:
“2010” to —> “2010-%-%”

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can use the strtotime function with date:

echo date('Y-m', strtotime('August 2010'));

Just adjust the format parameter to the date function to get the result in the format you are looking for. You might want to append the % part after convert the date format.