从字符串中创建日期

Question

I have some string like this.

$str = '14032017';

I want convert it to date format and show the result as 14-03-2017

I already try this but still didn't work :

<?php

$str = '14032017';
$strdate = strtotime($str);
$date = date('d-m-Y',$strdate);

echo $date;

?>

How could I to do that ?

Answer 1

Try this

$str = '14032017';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('dmY', $str);
if($date === false){
   echo 'Invalid Date';
}else{
   echo $date->format('d-m-Y');
}