使用date_create和date_format

试试这个。

function formatDate($input, $output){
  $inputdate = date_create($input);
  $output = date_format($inputdate, $output);
  return $output;
}

如果你想避免strtotime转换(例如，strtotime不能解析你的输入)，你可以使用，

$myDateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $dateString);
$newDateString = $myDateTime->format('d-m-Y');

或者,相当于:

$newDateString = date_format(date_create_from_format('Y-m-d', $dateString), 'd-m-Y');

你首先给它$dateString的格式。然后你告诉它你想要的$newDateString的格式。

或者如果source-format总是“Y-m-d”(yyyy-mm-dd)，那么只需使用DateTime:

<?php
    $source = '2012-07-31';
    $date = new DateTime($source);
    echo $date->format('d.m.Y'); // 31.07.2012
    echo $date->format('d-m-Y'); // 31-07-2012
?>

$timestamp = strtotime(your date variable); 
$new_date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp);

有关更多信息，请参阅strtotime的文档。

或者更短:

$new_date = date('d-m-Y', strtotime(your date variable));

Note: Because this post's answer sometimes gets upvoted, I came back here to kindly ask people not to upvote it anymore. My answer is ancient, not technically correct, and there are several better approaches right here. I'm only keeping it here for historical purposes. Although the documentation poorly describes the strtotime function, @rjmunro correctly addressed the issue in his comment: it's in ISO format date "YYYY-MM-DD". Also, even though my Date_Converter function might still work, I'd like to warn that there may be imprecise statements below, so please do disregard them.

投票最多的答案其实是错误的!

PHP strtotime手册在这里声明“该函数期望得到一个包含英文日期格式的字符串”。它实际上的意思是，它期望美国日期格式，如“m-d-Y”或“m/d/Y”。

这意味着以“Y-m-d”形式提供的日期可能会被strtotime错误解释。您应该以预期的格式提供日期。

我写了一个小函数，以几种格式返回日期。随意使用和修改。如果有人真的把它变成了一个类，我很高兴它能被分享。

function Date_Converter($date, $locale = "br") {

    # Exception
    if (is_null($date))
        $date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s");

    # Let's go ahead and get a string date in case we've
    # been given a Unix Time Stamp
    if ($locale == "unix")
        $date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s", $date);

    # Separate Date from Time
    $date = explode(" ", $date);

    if ($locale == "br") {
        # Separate d/m/Y from Date
        $date[0] = explode("/", $date[0]);
        # Rearrange Date into m/d/Y
        $date[0] = $date[0][1] . "/" . $date[0][0] . "/" . $date[0][2];
    }

    # Return date in all formats
        # US
        $Return["datetime"]["us"] = implode(" ", $date);
        $Return["date"]["us"]     = $date[0];

        # Universal
        $Return["time"]           = $date[1];
        $Return["unix_datetime"]  = strtotime($Return["datetime"]["us"]);
        $Return["unix_date"]      = strtotime($Return["date"]["us"]);
        $Return["getdate"]        = getdate($Return["unix_datetime"]);

        # BR
        $Return["datetime"]["br"] = date("d/m/Y H:i:s", $Return["unix_datetime"]);
        $Return["date"]["br"]     = date("d/m/Y", $Return["unix_date"]);

    # Return
    return $Return;

} # End Function

function dateFormat($date)
{
    $m = preg_replace('/[^0-9]/', '', $date);
    if (preg_match_all('/\d{2}+/', $m, $r)) {
        $r = reset($r);
        if (count($r) == 4) {
            if ($r[2] <= 12 && $r[3] <= 31) return "$r[0]$r[1]-$r[2]-$r[3]"; // Y-m-d
            if ($r[0] <= 31 && $r[1] != 0 && $r[1] <= 12) return "$r[2]$r[3]-$r[1]-$r[0]"; // d-m-Y
            if ($r[0] <= 12 && $r[1] <= 31) return "$r[2]$r[3]-$r[0]-$r[1]"; // m-d-Y
            if ($r[2] <= 31 && $r[3] <= 12) return "$r[0]$r[1]-$r[3]-$r[2]"; //Y-m-d
        }

        $y = $r[2] >= 0 && $r[2] <= date('y') ? date('y') . $r[2] : (date('y') - 1) . $r[2];
        if ($r[0] <= 31 && $r[1] != 0 && $r[1] <= 12) return "$y-$r[1]-$r[0]"; // d-m-y
    }
}

var_dump(dateFormat('31/01/00')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('31/01/2000')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('01-31-2000')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('2000-31-01')); // return 2000-01-31
var_dump(dateFormat('20003101')); // return 2000-01-31

还有一种模糊的可能性:

$oldDate = '2010-03-20'
$arr = explode('-', $oldDate);
$newDate = $arr[2].'-'.$arr[1].'-'.$arr[0];

我不知道我是否会使用它，但仍然:)