How to convert String to Date in php?

Question

I trying to get a date in the d/m/Y H:i format. Here's my code

$dateStr = "28/07/2016 10:00";
echo date('d/m/Y H:i', strtotime($dateStr));

Here's the ouput:

01/01/1970 01:00

I trying to convert to other formats, but the result still the same date. I know this kind of obvious but still can't understand why i'm getting that date as result.

why you don't want to use standart [`DateTime.createfromformat`](http://php.net/manual/ru/datetime.createfromformat.php) or [`strftime`](http://php.net/manual/ru/function.strftime.php)? — Arnial, Jul 28 '16 at 12:06
Isn't your string already in that format? Also you don't need to convert yoru string twice into a timestamp. — Rizier123, Jul 28 '16 at 12:06

Alok Patel · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-28T12:08:05.703

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You can use DateTime class and it's createFromFormat method to parse the string to date in required format.

Like this,

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y H:i', "28/07/2016 10:00");
$date = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $date;

edited Jul 28 '16 at 12:08

answered Jul 28 '16 at 12:07

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sunilwananje · Answer 2 · 2016-07-28T12:15:48.987

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Use Following code

$dateStr = "28/07/2016 10:00";
$dateStr =str_replace("/","-",$dateStr);
echo date('d/m/Y H:i', strtotime($dateStr));

edited Jul 28 '16 at 12:15

answered Jul 28 '16 at 12:08

sunilwananje

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This is exactly the same code they posted in their question – John Conde Jul 28 '16 at 12:12
just add one line $dateStr =str_replace("/","-",$dateStr); – sunilwananje Jul 28 '16 at 12:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '16 at 12:18

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This code achieves what you want to do:

$dateString = '28/07/2016 10:00';
$date = \DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y H:i', $dateString);
echo($date->format('d/m/Y H:i'));

answered Jul 28 '16 at 12:18

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How to convert String to Date in php?

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