The PHP strtotime manual here states that "The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format". What it actually means is that it expects an American US date format, such as "m-d-Y" or "m/d/Y". That means that a date provided as "Y-m-d" may get misinterpreted by strtotime. You should provide the date in the expected format.

Dec 18, 2009 · You can use either DateTime::__construct() or DateTime::createFromFormat() to create a DateTime object -- the second one is only available with PHP >= 5.3, but allows you to specify the date's format, which can prove useful, And you can use the DateTime::format() method to convert that object to any date format you might want to work with.

Note that in PHP 7.4, money_format() function is deprecated. It can be replaced by the intl NumberFormatter functionality, just make sure you enable the php-intl extension. It's a small amount of effort and worth it as you get a lot of customizability.

Jan 13, 2009 · I want to format the number 3253454 for my website visitors. If I use the inbuilt number_format function, I get: 3,253,454 which is great for UK and USA, however most other countries use 3.253.454...

Aug 18, 2013 · Scenario: the size of various files are stored in a database as bytes. What's the best way to format this size info to kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes? For instance I have an MP3 that Ubuntu dis...

Aug 20, 2016 · I want to do text formatting italic of my data which is echo from database. In my database, synonyms field their are more than one name and I retrieve all in one echo.

Nov 6, 2013 · The "%" denotes the beginning of the format specifier, the "f" indicates that the output should be a float, and the ".2" indicates that it should have a precision of two decimal points. Because "%" specifies the beginning of the format, two percent signs must be used if you want to actually print a percent sign.

Nov 9, 2009 · I made all tests with PHP 5.6. Edit: Altough the substr version seems to be still very fast (PHP 7.2), it also is broken in case your input can be longer than the length you want to pad to. E.g. you want to pad to 3 digits and your input has 4 than substr('0000' . '1234', -3) = '234' will only result in the last 3 digits

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If you have format dd-mm-yyyy then in PHP it won't work as expected. In PHP document they have below guideline. Dates in the m/d/y or d-m-y formats are disambiguated by looking at the separator between the various components: if the separator is a slash (/), then the American m/d/y is assumed; whereas if the separator is a dash (-) or a dot ...