How to change date format from DD / MM / YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD?

Question

How to change date string format using PHP?

From: 06/16/2010
To:2010-06-16

Answer 1

$date = "06/16/2010";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date)); // outputs 2010-06-16

Using the strtotime function .

Answer 2

php -r 'echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("06/16/2010"));'

Answer 3

You should use \DateTimeand get rid of the lines as soon as possible:

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('m/d/Y', '06/16/2010'); // \DateTime object
echo $date->format('Y-m-d'); // 2010-06-16

More details:
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php