formatting a date string.

For some reason, I am never able to get dates.... I think I have a learning disability.

I've tried strtotime and date, but I'm getting 1970 etc., etc.

$date = 090807

I want it to look like this:

$newdate = 2009-08-07

But, like I said, I suck.

Well, for [man]strtotime/man you need an RFC compliant date format. Last time I checked, 090807 was not one of them.

If you wanted that to turn into 2009-08-07, you could do something like:

<?php

$date = 090807;
$parts = explode('-', chunk_split($date, 2, '-'));

$date = '20' . $parts[0] . '-' . $parts[1] . '-' . $parts[2];
echo $date;

But you're better off specifying dates in some GNU format. Makes life much easier.

Well you could use 4 digit year so it wouldnt be a problem 🙂

$origdate = '20090807';
$date = new DateTime($origdate);
$date_formatted = $date->format('Y-m-d');

So its really a matter of adding the correct century to your date 😉