How to Convert MySQL Date and Time to Another Format in PHP

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With this tutorial you can easily change the MySQL date and time format into your desired format.

I’ve also added symbols together with their value for you to understand further the conversion.

So Let’s get started:
1. Open PHPMyAdmin.
2. Create a database and name it as “Dateconvert”.
3. Create database connection and save it.
4.Then Create a form name it index.php and put this code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>How to Convert MySQL Date and Time to Another Format in PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
	<?php
		include('conn.php');
		//MySQLi Object-oriented
		//$query = $conn->query("select * from `date` where dateid='1'");
		//$row = $query->fetch_assoc();
		
		//MySQLi Procedural
		$query=mysqli_query($conn,"select * from `date` where dateid='1'");
		$row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($query);
	?>
	<h2>Our Date: <?php echo $row['date_time']; ?></h2>
	Some Symbols to Consider: 
		<ul>
			<li>Y : returns a four-digit year</li>
			<li>y : returns a two-digit year</li>
			<li>M : returns the first three letters of a month</li>
			<li>m : returns two digit numerical representation of a month</li>
			<li>F : Full letter representation of a month</li>
			<li>D : returns the first three letters of a day in a week</li>
			<li>d :	returns two digit numerical representation of a day</li>
			<li>H :	returns 24-hour clock</li>
			<li>h :	returns 12-hour clock</li>
			<li>i :	number of minutes</li>
			<li>s :	number of seconds</li>
			<li>A :	add AM/PM</li>
		</ul>	
	<h2>Example Convertions:</h2>
	<?php
	
	//MySQLi Object-oriented
	//$date = new DateTime($row['date_time']);
	//echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s')."<br>";
	//echo $date->format('y-M-d h:i:s')."<br>";
	//echo $date->format('F d, Y h:i A - D');

	//MySQLi Procedural
	$date = date_create($row['date_time']);
	echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:s')."<br>";
	echo date_format($date, 'y-M-d h:i:s')."<br>";
	echo date_format($date, 'F d, Y h:i A - D');
	
	?>
</body>
</html>

5. Run and test the program.

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