如何在php中格式化日期时间

Question

I'll try format datetime like this Thu Jun 15 2017 14:12:28 GMT 0700 (SE Asia Standard Time) to format like 2017-06-5 in PHP. I use date_create but have errorl like this

Warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTimeInterface, string given

and this my PHP code

$aa = date_format($w22,"Y-m-d");

echo $aa;

content from $22 is Thu Jun 15 2017 14:12:28 GMT 0700 (SE Asia Standard Time) how to format datetime like mine, please help me to solved my problem. Thanks

Answer 1

You need to remove GMT 0700 (SE Asia Standard Time)

$w22 = date_create("Thu Jun 15 2017 14:12:28")
$aa = date_format($w22,"Y-m-d");

echo $aa;