Question

I have a date variable with the format

2008 12 29

to have it correctly display from within my database app I need the format to be

2008-12-29

Is there a way to simply add the - into the string or replace the spaces with -?

I am using PHP and the date is stored in $release_date

Answer 1

Use str_replace():

$release_date = str_replace(' ', '-', $release_date);