Month and Year date conversion

Question

I have a Credit card expiry date with month and year only coming in form of a string say 08/17, How can I change this string in a format so that I can pass it to Authorize.net

$creditCard->setExpirationDate( "2017-08");

I have tried to use strtotime() but it is giving me the current year

echo $date = date('Y-m', strtotime($ccInfo['exp_date']));

Answer 1

You should use date_create_from_format instead of strtotime to build your date:

echo date_create_from_format('m/y', '08/17')->format('Y-m');

The function creates a \DateTime object, so you can call format to get the format you want.

Answer 2

You can also write like this

$eventDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('m/y', '08/17');
echo date_format($eventDate, 'Y-m');