Question

I have a string as mentioned below:

$ts  = '3/11/09 11:18:59 AM'; 

which I got using the date() function.

Now I need to convert this to a readable format like below

11-Mar-2009 

I have tried everything using date(). How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You need to convert it to something you can use for further formatting. strtotime() is a good start, which yields a unix timestamp. You can format that one using strftime() then.

strftime('%d-%b-%G', strtotime($ts));