如何在PHP中将日期从yyyy-mm-dd转换为dd-mm-yyyy？ [重复]

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I am storing date in yyyy-mm-dd in database. Now i want to display that date in frontend but while displaying date it should be in dd-mm-yyyy format. How to display it in this format please help <?php echo $data2['emp_dob'];?> . I dont want to change my current format of storing date in yyyy-mm-dd. please help me to display it in dd-mm-yyyy format only

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Answer 1

use this function, which uses inbuilt function 'substr(str,start,length)'.

function getFormatDate($date){
    $date = substr($date,8,2).'-'.substr($date,5,2).'-'.substr($date,0,4);
    return $date;
}

getFormatDate($data2['emp_dob']);