How to convert date from one format to another?

Question

I\'m having the date in this format in a Excel worksheet 03-Dec-10. So its not compatible while inserting it into the database. How to convert the date to the acceptable format?

Answer 1

For a more general approach, you can always dump your current format to a string, like how you have it, and use string operations to substring and reorganize. I know for a fact that MySQL accepts string values for DATETIME fields.

$day = substr($input, 0, 2);
$month = substr($input, 2, 3);
switch($month){
    case "Jan":
        $month = "01";
        break;
    ...
}