Extracting only date from datetime field in MySQL and assigning it to PHP variable?

You need to use DateTime class if you want to extract the only date from datetime field. The syntax is as follows −

DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d H:i:s",yourDateTimeValue)->format("yourFormatSpecifier");

Now you can implement the above syntax in your PHP code to extract the only date from datetime field. The PHP code is as follows −

$MySQLDataBaseDateTime = "2018-02-13 13:10:15";
echo DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d H:i:s",$MySQLDataBaseDateTime)->format("d/m/Y");

Here is the screenshot of the PHP code −

Output

13/02/2018

Published on 19-Mar-2019 08:27:36