How to convert ISO8601 to Date format in php

Question

How to convert this (in ISO8601 format): 2014-03-13T09:05:50.240Z

To this (in MySQL DATE format): 2014-03-13

Answer 1

Since PHP 5.2.0 you can do it using OOP and DateTime() as well (of course if you prefer OOP):

$now = new DateTime("2014-03-13T09:05:50.240Z");
echo $now->format('Y-m-d');    // MySQL datetime format