How to reformat date in PHP?

I am pulling the dates of various posts from a database. The dates are in the following format:

2009开发者_高级运维-08-12

Numeric Year - Numeric Month - Numeric Day

How can I reformat these dates to something more user friendly like:

August 12, 2009

Numeric Month Numeric Date, Numeric Year

Assuming that the date gotten from the mysql database is stored in a variable called:

$date = $row['date_selected'];

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Unlike the strtotime based examples, this allows you to ensure the month and day are interpreted in the correct order regardless of locale settings specified on the server.

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', '2009-08-12');
$output = $date->format('F j, Y');

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date("F d, Y", strtotime($input))

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$new_format = date("Your Date String", strtotime($date));

See:
- http://php.net/strtotime
- http://php.net/date

Basically, if strtotime() can read it correctly, you can reformat it anyway you please.

In this case, Year - Month - Day is a properly recognized strtotime() format, this might not be the case for other formats.

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You might consider doing your date formatting in MySQL with your select statement:

DATE_FORMAT(date,'%M %e, %Y') as date_selected

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_date_format.asp

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<?php
echo date('F j, Y', strtotime($date));

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You might want to look at the php function strtotime:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

It'll parse a large number of date representations to a Unix timestamp.

Then use the date function.

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Using strtodate or explode to split the date into its different components, you can then use the date function with the appropriate format string:http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

$date = "2009-08-12";
list($year,$month,$day) = explode("-",$date);
$formattedDate = date("F d, Y", mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year));

Outputs: "August 12, 2009"

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<?php
//Date Formatter
/*
date: date you want to convert
format: its current format ie m-d-Y, m/d/Y, Y-m-d, Y/m/d
delimS: Current delimiter ie - or / or .
delimF: The delimiter you want for the result

NOTE: this will only convert m-d-Y to Y-m-d and back
*/
function dtform($date,$format,$delimS,$delimF){
    $dateFinal = '';
    if($format == 'm'.$delimS.'d'.$delimS.'Y'){
        $dateFinal_exp = explode($delimS,$date);
        $dateFinal = $dateFinal_exp[2].$delimF.$dateFinal_exp[0].$delimF.$dateFinal_exp[1];
    }else if($format == 'Y'.$delimS.'m'.$delimS.'d'){

        $dateFinal_exp = explode($delimS,$date);
        $dateFinal = $dateFinal_exp[1].$delimF.$dateFinal_exp[2].$delimF.$dateFinal_exp[0];
    }
    return $dateFinal;
}
?>

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Use it like this:

// February 1, 2005
print date ("F j, Y", mktime (0,0,0,14,1,2004));