String to Datetime in php?

Question

I am getting a text datetime by explode() function. Like this.

$date = "26 July 2014";

I want to convert it to datetime and i can do substractions.

Can you elaborate a little more about the result you need, what have you tried etc.? — Sougata Bose, Jul 21 '15 at 09:18
duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8063057/convert-this-string-to-datetime — Erik van de Ven, Jul 21 '15 at 09:20

iLaYa ツ · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-21T09:47:45.420

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$s    = "26 July 2014";
$date = strtotime($s); //1406347200
echo date('m-d-Y H:i:s', $date); //07-26-2014 00:00:00

For Subtracting:

$newdate = strtotime ( '-2 day' , strtotime ( $s ) ) ;
$newdate = date ( 'Y-m-d' , $newdate );
echo $newdate; //2014-07-24

edited Jul 21 '15 at 09:47

answered Jul 21 '15 at 09:24

iLaYa ツ

Robert · Answer 2 · 2015-07-21T09:41:32.090

@Leerner answer is good but if you want to create DateTime object you can use

$dateTimeObj = DateTime::createFromFormat('d F Y', '26 July 2014');

or

$dateTimeObj = date_create_from_format('d F Y', '26 July 2014');

to substract you can use modify or sub method

$dateTimeObj->modify('-1 day');
echo $dateTimeObj->format('d F Y');

or date_modify() function

You can check how this work on this fiddle

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