How to format this date (dd/mm/yyyy) into (j M Y) in PHP? [closed]

Answer 1

strtotime() is fine, but it runs the risk of returning unexpected results due to the date configuration of your system. Just to be extra safe, I favour using a look-up array.

<?php

function dateReformat( $date )
{
    $monthList = array
    (
        'January',
        'February',
        'March',
        'April',
        'May',
        'June',
        'July',
        'August',
        'September',
        'October',
        'November',
        'December'
    );

    $tmp = explode( '/', $date );
    $month = $monthList[ $tmp[1]-1 ];

    return "{$tmp[0]} {$month} {$tmp[2]}";
}

echo dateReformat( '12/05/1980' );

Answer 2

Here is one way:

$oldDate = "18/08/2011";
$dateArr = explode("/", $oldDate);
$newDate = date("j M Y", mktime(0,0,0,$dateArr[1],$dateArr[0],$dateArr[2]));

Should work as is. Notice the order of the $dateArr elements listed in mktime.

Answer 3

<?php 
   $str = "18/08/2011";
    preg_match("|(.*?)/(.*?)/(.*?)|", $str, $match);
    $str = $match[2]."/".$match[1]."/".$match[2];
    echo $your_format = date("j M Y", strtotime($str)); //strtotime() expects mm/dd/yyyy
    //returns 18 Aug 2008
?> 

http://sandbox.phpcode.eu/g/29439.php

Answer 4

If you are using PHP >= 5.3 you may try the DateTime class.

<?php
  $dateString = '18/08/2011';
  $dt = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $dateString);

  echo date('d M Y', $dt->getTimestamp());
?>