PHP Date uk format

ade234uk

I create a date automatically and insert this in to my database like so

date("Y-m-d");

however the date is in US format. How do I create a date in UK format. Would I do the following?

date("d-m-Y")

Could I also convert this UK date to a string to make simple calculations like seeing if the date posted is < the current date etc....

Thank you

Weedpacket

Yes.
Yes.

ade234uk

Ok I tried my solution and it correctly prints out the UK date to screen however when I insert this to database in the date field it goes in as

0000-00-00

Is this because I need to convert the UK to a string before inserting this in to the database?

Once this goes in a string how to I pull it back out to print the date again?

Weedpacket

No, you need to convert the UK format into ISO format (I'm guessing that's what your database is expecting, you might want to check its documentation.) As the returned date hints, that's yyyy-mm-dd. Either that or tell your database what format you're going to be supplying dates in (consult your database's documentation to see whether you can and if so how).