Reverse a time to string conversion

[jumpingmatflash]

I use the following code to convert a date field taken from a postgres DB into a nice readable format. I'm unsure however of how to reverse it. The date to string conversion code is:

$start = date("d/m/Y",strtotime($arr["start"]));

So i need to convert a string in the DD/MM/YYYY format into a date field, i tried using

$start = strtotime($start);

But that seems to fail. If i do no changes to the string the days and months get mixed up

Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt

[kburger]

I don't know what format you need it in, but if you have a $start variable in the format dd/mm/yyyy you can split it up with this:

list ($d, $m, $y) = split("/", $start);

Then you can do whatever you want with the pieces.

[TheDefender]

OK, so maybe I am missing something here (wouldn't be the first time) Why take the extra step? Why not just convert it into the format you need to begin with?
So, it's a DATE type field, so you want it in YYYY-MM-DD format right?

$start = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($arr["start"]));