Converting date From one format to another

Question

iam having the date format stored in database as "20100723"(YYYYMMDD) and how do i convert it into "23-JUL-2010"

Answer 1

$original = "20100723";
$converted = date("d-M-Y", strtotime($original));

See manual: date(), strtotime()

Answer 2

strtoupper(date_create("20100723")->format("d-M-Y"))

See the DateTime class, in particular the DateTime::format method. date_create is an alias to the constructor of DateTime.

Answer 3

if php >= 5.3.0

<?php
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('YYYYMMDD', $dbStoredTime);
echo $date->format('d-M-Y');

Answer 4

Use PHP's strtotime() function, it recognizes the date format in the string and converts it into a Unix timestamp.

$time = strtotime("20100723"); // 1279836000

Then just use date() to convert it back into another string format

echo date("d-M-Y", $time); // 23-Jul-2010

Note that you would have to use strtoupper() to make "Jul" upper-case