Converting string to Date and DateTime

Question

If I have a PHP string in the format of mm-dd-YYYY (for example, 10-16-2003), how do I properly convert that to a Date and then a DateTime

Answer 1

to create date from any string use:
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d-m-y H:i', '01-01-01 01:00'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i');