Question

I have a database with a table, and it has a field with datetime type. When I collect data from that field and show it in PHP, it shows “Oct 9 2012 2:06PM”. I want to convert its format to “10/09/2012 14:06:00”. Please note that before I convert it, it doesn’t have “second” and I want it have “00” seconds after conversion.

How can I format this date in PHP?

Answer 1

You should familiarize yourself with PHP’s date() function.

A similar date format could be created with:

$formatted = date('m/d/Y H:i:s', strtotime($dateFromDb));

The strtotime() call on the date from the database will be required first in-order to convert the date into a Unix timestamp which can then be passed to the date() function (for formatting).