PHP 5.4: convert between date formats

Question

I have dates in the following format:

2016-10-12
|    |  |
YEAR M  D

and I need:

12.10.16
|  |  |
D  M  YEAR

I have managed to parse date in source format:

$date = date_parse_from_format('YYYY-mm-dd', $dateYYYYMMDD);

But I am having trouble converting it to a new format. Could you please help.

`$dateDDMMYY = date('d.m.y', strtotime($dateYYYYMMDD));` – BlitZ Oct 12 '16 at 16:47 — BlitZ, Oct 12 '16 at 16:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '16 at 16:49

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Most flexible is to use the Datetime class:

<?php
$date = new Datetime('2016-10-12');
var_dump($date->format('d.m.y'));

The output obviously is:

string(8) "12.10.16"

answered Oct 12 '16 at 16:49

arkascha

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