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

Like we have date "07/May/2018" and we need date "2018-05-07" as mysql compatible

if (!empty($date)) {
    $timestamp = strtotime($date);
    if ($timestamp === FALSE) {
         $timestamp = strtotime(str_replace('/', '-', $date));
     }
         $date = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp);
  }

It works for me. enjoy :)