How to change date format from DD/MM/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD ?

Question

Hi

i need to change the format of my date string using PHP

from : "06/16/2010"

to : "2010-06-16"

can you please help me achieve this

thanks

Answer 1

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_date.asp

Answer 2

$date = "06/16/2010";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date)); // outputs 2010-06-16

Using the strtotime function.

Answer 3

php -r 'echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("06/16/2010"));'