Format datetime string in php
Assuming you have a string represents some datetime: $mydatetime_str = 'Oct 20 18:29:50 2001 GMT'; dTo reformat the above datetime string to mm/dd/yyyy, use this: $newdatetime_str = strftime("%m/%d/%Y", strtotime($mydatetime)); For more details about strftime : http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php