Varchar to Date

[stig1]

I am access information from a ibm db2 (as400) database system.

 

We have a field that stores dates but they are stored in a varchar (character) field type.

 

When the data (date) come out, they are 'yyyymmdd'.

 

How would I go to format that string into dd-mm-yyyy?

[JasonLewis]

Use a combination of date and strtotime.

 

$date = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($database_date));