Question

i was fetching this date from table in the database like this format

Sunday 16th of January 2011 06:55:41 PM

and i want to convert it to be like this format

11-05-2012

how to do that with date function or any function

when i use date function

 <td><?php echo date('d-m-Y', $v['v_created']); ?></td>

i get error message

 'Severity: Warning

Message: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given'

Answer 1

This works for me (just tested on local web server)

<?php

date_default_timezone_set ('Europe/Rome');

$date = "Sunday 16th of January 2011 06:55:41 PM";

//.Strip "of" messing with php strtotime
$date = str_replace('of', '', $date);

$sql_friendly_date = date('y-m-d H:i', strtotime($date));

echo $sql_friendly_date;

?>

You can format the date as you prefer changing the first parameter of Date function according to: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php