How to format date?

Question

PHP

How to format a date like this 2015-10-28 13:03:12 into
Wen, 28 Oct 2015 13:03:12 +0200 ?

Answer 1

echo DateTime::createFromFormat( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', '2015-10-28 13:03:12' )->format( 'r' );
// Wen, 28 Oct 2015 13:03:12 +0200

echo DateTime::createFromFormat( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', '2015-10-28 13:03:12' )->format( DateTime::RFC2822 );
// Wen, 28 Oct 2015 13:03:12 +0200

echo DateTime::createFromFormat( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', '2015-10-28 13:03:12' )->format( 'D, d M Y H:i:s O' );
// Wen, 28 Oct 2015 13:03:12 +0200

or

echo date( 'r', strtotime( '2015-10-28 13:03:12' ) );
// Wen, 28 Oct 2015 13:03:12 +0200

php.net/manual/ru/datetime.createfromformat.php
php.net/manual/ru/function.strtotime.php
php.net/manual/ru/function.date.php

Answer 2

date('D, d MYH:i:s O')

Answer 3

datetime

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2015-10-28 13:03:12');
echo $date->format(DateTime::RFC2822);

Answer 4

1. Parse the date using strtotime
2. Collect the desired string representation using date
Like this:

$timestamp = strtotime("2015-10-28 13:03:12");
echo date("D, d M Y H:i:s O", $timestamp);