Converting to date in PHP from yyyymmdd format

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Use strtotime() to convert a string containing a date into a Unix timestamp:

<?php
// both lines output 813470400
echo strtotime("19951012"), "\n",
     strtotime("12 October 1995");
?>

You can pass the result as the second parameter to date() to reformat the date yourself:

<?php
// prints 1995 Oct 12
echo date("Y M d", strtotime("19951012"));
?>

Note

strtotime() will fail with dates before the Unix epoch at the start of 1970.

As an alternative which will work with dates before 1970:

<?php
// Returns the year as an offset since 1900, negative for years before
$parts = strptime("18951012", "%Y%m%d");
$year = $parts['tm_year'] + 1900; // 1895
$day = $parts['tm_mday']; // 12
$month = $parts['tm_mon']; // 10
?>

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