PHP date showing '1970-01-01 ' after conversion

Question

I have a form in which date format is dd/mm/yyyy . For searching database , I hanverted the date format to yyyy-mm-dd . But when I echo

Answer 1

Another workaround:

Convert datepicker dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd

$startDate = trim($_POST['startDate']);
$startDateArray = explode('/',$startDate);
$mysqlStartDate = $startDateArray[2]."-".$startDateArray[1]."-".$startDateArray[0];
$startDate = $mysqlStartDate;