PHP convert date yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy

Dates that come from MySql databases are a bit back to front for people to read.  The year first followed by months and then days.  In Australia, New Zealand, Europe and many other countries it is dd-mm-yyyy so this is a small function to turn this around to be more readable.

On your page where you call the date from the datbase, put the date into a variable then call the function.

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//This is the function function changeDate($backwardsDate){ $newDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($backwardsDate)); return $newDate; } //Put the date into a variable $backwardsDate = 2012-10-28; //Call the function echo changeDate($backwardsDate); // Once processed by the function it will output // 28-10-2012