PHP Date Exercises : Convert a date from yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy

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5. Date Format Conversion (yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy)

Write a PHP script to convert a date from yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy.

Sample date : 2012-09-12

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Original date in yyyy-mm-dd format
$odate = "2012-09-12";

// Converting the original date to a new format (dd-mm-yyyy)
$newDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($odate));

// Displaying the new formatted date
echo $newDate."\n";
?>

Output:

12-09-2012

Explanation:

The above PHP code takes a date string in the format "yyyy-mm-dd", converts it to the format "dd-mm-yyyy", and then prints the new formatted date. It achieves this by using the "strtotime()" function to parse the original date string and convert it into a Unix timestamp, and then the "date()" function to format the timestamp into the desired format. Finally, it prints the formatted date.

Flowchart :

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