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

There is no reason to use the inefficient time functions. The most efficient way is to simply extract the first 10 characters:

substr($date,0,10)