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problem in work with dates in the following format

Rajesh Goswami 2445 25-Nov-2010
work with dates in the following format: "Tuesday, February 14, 2006 @ 10:39 am", how can we convert them to another format, that is easier to use? please give the example
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Updated on 18-Apr-2019
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Amit Singh

Amit Singh

25-Nov-2010
The strtotime function can convert a string to a timestamp. A timestamp can be converted to date format. So it is best to store the dates as timestamp in the database, and just output them in the format you like.

So let's say we have
$date = "Tuesday, February 14, 2006 @ 10:39 am";
In order to convert that to a timestamp, we need to get rid of the "@" sign, and we can use the remaining string as a parameter for the strtotime function.

for example
$date = "Tuesday, February 14, 2006 @ 10:39 am";
$date = str_replace("@ ","",$date);
$date = strtotime($date);

now $date is a timestamp
and we can say:

echo date("d M Y",$date);

hi, rajesh check this sample

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