//This code is extracted from the comments on the php.net docs
// Date: d-m-y => y-m-d

$time =explode("-","12-04-2008");
	krsort($time);
	print "<p>".implode("-",$time)."</p>";

//Will return: 2008-04-12.

http://www.php.net/manual/es/function.date.php#81946

This changes the date format from d-m-y to y-m-d on PHP. It's easy to change the - to / or spaces...

Easy transform date format d-m-y => y-m-d on PHP

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