PHP Converting date from one format to another
<?php
/**
* We are using CreateFromFormat
* because date format differs in different time zones
* for eg: YYYY-MM-DD in some and DD-MM-YYYY in others etc
*/
function convertDate($givenDate,$fromFormat,$toFormat){
return DateTime::CreateFromFormat($fromFormat, $givenDate)->format($toFormat);
}
// 23 Nov 2019
var_dump(convertDate('2019-11-23','Y-m-d','j M Y'));
// 26 Aug 2019
var_dump(convertDate('26-08-2019','d-m-Y','j M Y'));PHP Converting YYYY-MM-DD to DD-MM-YYYY
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// 23-02-2019
var_dump(convertDate('2019-02-23','Y-m-d','d-m-Y')); PHP Converting DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD
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// 2019-12-31
var_dump(convertDate('31-12-2019','d-m-Y','Y-m-d'));
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