Question

i have a date string from my db, the date is 16/11/2010 and its format is d/m/Y, i want to modify its like this.

<?php
   $date_from_db= '16/11/2010'; // format is d/m/Y
   $date = new DateTime($date_from_db);
   $date-> modify('+1 week');
   echo $date-> format('d/m/Y') ;
?>

i have got this error

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (16/11/2012) at position 0 (1).

How can i fix this?

Answer 1

Unfortunately that is not one of the time formats supported by DateTime class constructor.

This page shows valid formats

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php

You should use an actual SQL-compliant date field (typically YYYY-MM-DD) in your DB. Or if you can’t change the way your are storing the dates, use DateTime::CreateFromFormat as suggested in other answer.

I would highly suggest using a more standard storage format though.