Converting a text string to a date?

[duckduckgoose]

I have a string that looks like this: 16-AUG-2008, but I'd like to convert it to:

2008-08-16 00:00:00 for insertion into mysql. I've been trying to do something with strtotime, but I get really funky dates... I'm messing something up...

[NogDog]

$date = '16-AUG-2008';
$dbDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-', ' ', $date)));
echo $dbDate;