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

Since no one mentioned this, here's another way:

$date = date_create_from_format("m-d-Y", "10-16-2003")->format("Y-m-d");