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I've got a date in DD.MM.YYYY h:mm a format, how could i parse it in php or laravel to store it in a datetime field in mysql database?
Here's the date i want to parse: 29.08.2015 11:00 pm
I tried to parse to parse it like this:
date_create_from_format('DD.MM.YYYY h:mm a','29.08.2015 11:00 pm');
But it didn't work, it returns false...
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$date = date_create_from_format('j.m.Y h:i a','29.08.2015 11:00 pm');
echo $date->format('Y-m-j H:i:s');
Outputs 2015-08-29 23:00:00
new DateTime(string date) converts a string to a date object without caring the format. You can pass '29-8-2015','29 Aug 2015'.. etc as $datestring. No need to define the format of input.
$datestring='29.08.2015 11:00 pm'; //defined date as string
$datetime = new DateTime($datestring); //create datetime of defined date
$datetime = $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); //reformat to the format we need