Convert a date format in PHP

Question

I am trying to convert a date from yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy (but not in SQL); however I don\'t know how the date function requires a timestamp, and

Answer 1

$timestamp = strtotime(your date variable); 
$new_date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp);

For more, see the documentation for strtotime.

Or even shorter:

$new_date = date('d-m-Y', strtotime(your date variable));