Converting string to Date and DateTime

Question

If I have a PHP string in the format of mm-dd-YYYY (for example, 10-16-2003), how do I properly convert that to a Date and then a DateTime

Answer 1

For first Date

$_firstDate = date("m-d-Y", strtotime($_yourDateString));

For New Date

$_newDate = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($_yourDateString));