Format date and time with PHP

Question

I have this page that displays the emails received from the logged in user, along with the respective dates. I’m trying to format the date display by PHP but it’s not working as I expected. I need the PT-BR date to appear in the first line and the hour and minute in the second line, but it is appearing according to the image. Can you help me ? Follows my code:

<? foreach ($resultado as &$rowmensagens) {
$datamensagem = $rowmensagens['dataenvio'];
$datamensagem = date("d/m/Y H:i:s", strtotime($datamensagem));
$horamensagem = date("H:i:s", strtotime($datamensagem));

$arr_msg = explode("/", $datamensagem);
$diamsg = $arr_msg[0];
$mesmsg = $arr_msg[1];
$anomsg = $arr_msg[2];

$arr_hora = explode(":", $horamensagem);
$hora_msg = $arr_hora[0];
$minuto_msg = $arr_hora[1]; ?>

<strong><?=$diamsg?>/<?=$mesmsg?>/<?=$anomsg?></strong>
<strong><?=$hora_msg?>:<?=$minuto_msg?></strong>

NOTE: This formatting already worked on another occasion and I just copied the structure to this page. Thank you !

Answer 1

I would suggest you use this method will be much simpler you can do it this way

(new DateTime($datamensagem))->format('d/m/Y H:i:s');

Answer 2

Well, you’re complicating your code to tell the truth... the function date() already formats the pro date you need, even you are already formatting it there, just need to adjust the same format:

$envio = strtotime($rowmensagens['dataenvio']);
$datamensagem = date("d/m/Y", $envio);
$horamensagem = date("H:i", $envio);

and then just print. Note that you don’t need to separate the string or anything, just use.

About the error that appeared only the time 21:00, occurs because the function strtotime($datamensagem) returns false, which is the value when the function fails. Therefore it would probably be enough to modify the code to convert the string coming from the database, in the format that the function understands, and to save the value only once, passing this value to the function date whenever you need.

Learn more at documentation of the date function and of strtotime function.