Error when trying to convert my date to datetime

Question

Im using datepicker in my input to select the date.

Im my datepicker script I set a format to my date, like this:

  $('.datepicker').datepicker({

            dateFormat: 'DD, d MM, yy', 
        });

The result of this is "Wednesday, 30 April, 2014".

But now I want to save this text date in my sql table as datetime so I need to do the conversion.

Im Trying like this:

$f['date'] = $_POST['date'];
$newdate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($f['date']));
echo $newdate;

But When I do the echo it shows always: "1970-01-01"

My input:

 <input type="text" class="datepicker" name="date" value="" />

Answer 1

That format isn't one that strtotime() recognizes. Use DateTime::createFromFormat() instead:

$newdate = DateTime::createFromFormat('l, j F, Y', 'Wednesday, 30 April, 2014');
echo $newdate->format('Y-m-d');

Demo