I want to convert a text string to a datetime and then output in a different format. I think i can do this with date_create_from_format(), but this doesn't return any detail.
$datetime=date_create_from_format( 'Y-m-d.H:i:sP' , '2020-05-26T11:03:00+00:00' );
$newdatestring=date('g:iA', $datetime);
You may try with the following simple code. Note, that if you want to include a literal character in the format, you need to escape it with a backslash (\). The result from date_create_from_format() / DateTime::createFromFormat() call is a DateTime object representing the date and time specified by the time string, so you need to format it appropriately.
Procedural:
<?php
$datetime = date_create_from_format('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP', '2020-05-26T11:03:00+03:00');
echo date_format($datetime, 'g:iA');
?>
Object-oriented:
<?php
$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP', '2020-05-26T11:03:00+03:00');
echo $datetime->format('g:iA');
?>
Output:
11:03AM
Keep it simple with the DateTime class:
$datetime = new DateTime('2020-05-26T11:03:00+00:00');
$newdatestring = $datetime->format('g:iA');
If necessary, you can also use DateTime::createFromFormat
$datetime = new DateTime('2020-05-26T11:03:00+00:00'); $newdatestring = $dt->format('g:iA');) returns errors (Undefined variable: dt ... and Uncaught Error: Call to a member function format() on null ...).
strtotime()