How to invert data [duplicate]

You can do this with data() and stringtotime() like this:

echo date("d/m/Y", strtotime("2016/05/20"));

Example: link

Another option is to treat as a normal string, split with explode() , reverse order with array_reverse() , and merge into a string again with implode() . In this case it would look something like this:

echo implode("/", array_reverse(explode("/", "2016/05/20")));

Example: link

I already answered something similar a few days ago, if you wanted to see the answer is explode " and then merge them again with the "implode ", I used the array_reverse "to do the inversion, but as it is a date you could do this manually.

Example used inversion by PHP

<?php
// Sua data
$data = "2016/05/20";

// Quebra a data nos "/" e transforma cada pedaço numa matriz
$divisor = explode("/", $data);

// Inverte os pedaços da data (via PHP)
$reverso = array_reverse($divisor);

// Junta novamente a matriz em texto
$final = implode("/", $reverso);

// Imprime os resultados na tela
echo $final;
?>

Example reversing "manually"

<?php
// Sua data
$data = "2016/05/20";

// Quebra a data nos "/" e transforma cada pedaço numa variavel
list($ano, $mes, $dia) = explode("/", $data);

// Monta a data de volta no formato certo
$data_nova = ($dia . "/" . $mes . "/" . $ano);

// Imprime os resultados na tela
echo $data_nova;
?>

If you are procedurally programming an option, use the date_format function:

$date = date_create("2016/05/08");
echo date_format($date,"d/m/Y");

If you are using the Object Orientation approach you can use format :

$data_string = '2016/05/08';
$data = new DateTime($data_string);
echo $data->format('d/m/Y');

But it's a question with n possible solutions.

References:

date_format doc

Equivalent question - SO [en]

Datetime doc