How to Parse a Date String in PHP

How to parse a date string in PHP?

Try strtotime() to convert to a timestamp and then date() to get it in your own format.

Converting string to Date and DateTime

Use strtotime() on your first date then date('Y-m-d') to convert it back:

$time = strtotime('10/16/2003');

$newformat = date('Y-m-d',$time);

echo $newformat;
// 2003-10-16

Make note that there is a difference between using forward slash / and hyphen - in the strtotime() function. To quote from php.net:

Dates in the m/d/y or d-m-y formats
are disambiguated by looking at the
separator between the various
components: if the separator is a
slash (/), then the American m/d/y is
assumed; whereas if the separator is a
dash (-) or a dot (.), then the
European d-m-y format is assumed.

To avoid potential ambiguity, it's best to use ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) dates or DateTime::createFromFormat() when possible.

Convert DateTime to String PHP

You can use the format method of the DateTime class:

$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
$result = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

If format fails for some reason, it will return FALSE. In some applications, it might make sense to handle the failing case:

if ($result) {
  echo $result;
} else { // format failed
  echo "Unknown Time";
}

PHP parse string to dateTime() with

$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d\TH:i:s+', '2017-03-03T09:06:41.187');
print_r($datetime);

prints:

DateTime Object
(
    [date] => 2017-03-03 09:06:41.000000
    [timezone_type] => 3
    [timezone] => Europe/Helsinki
)

How to parse date string to dateTime in php?

You could use the createFromFormat method from the DateTime object :

$dateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s,u', "2014-12-01 16:00:02,153");
echo $dateTime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

PHP Parse Date From String

You can do that using the DateTime object.

$Date = new DateTime('2013-07-09T04:58:23.075Z'); //create dateTime object
$Date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam')); //set the timezone

echo $Date->format('d/m/Y H:i'); 

PHP Parse Date String

explode will do the trick for that:

$pieces = explode("/", $date);
$d = $pieces[1];
$m = $pieces[0];
$y = $pieces[2];

Alternatively, you could do it in one line (see comments - thanks Lucky):

list($m, $d, $y) = explode("/", $date);

PHP DateTime, parsing string date fails

Your input datetime string Wed Jan 12 2011 00:00:00 GMT 0100 (CET) is not valid/standard for use in DateTime() or strtotime(). See date_parse() function to see how your datetime string is being parsed:

print_r( date_parse('Wed Jan 12 2011 00:00:00 GMT 0100 (CET)') );

demo

Use DateTime::createFromFormat() static method to return DateTime object according to the specific format.

demo

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