Creating new Date Time from string

Question

I have a string which is \'23/05/2013\' and I wanted to create a new Date Time object from this, so I did:

new \\DateTime(\'23/05/2013\');

Answer 1

If you want to use the object normally rather than statically try this:

$datetime = new DateTime();
$newDate = $datetime->createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '23/05/2013');

then you can use it like normal:

echo $newDate->format('Y-m-d');

Answer 2

According to http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php

It's mm/dd/yyyy, which is American, not British

Use

DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '23/05/2013');