php - Converting a German date to Y-m-d does not work?

Question

I have a date like this: 2. Februar 2012

I want to have it converted to 2012-02-02, so I wrote this code:

$date = '2. Februar 2012';
$date = date('Y-m-d', $date);

The $date var is either empty or 1970-01-01 afterwards, whats wrong or missing?

Note: The date is in German format, so its not February, its Februar. I get the date from a date picker that way.

Thanks!

Answer 1

use like this:

$date = '2. February 2012';
$date = strtotime($date);
$date = date('Y-m-d', $date);

echo $date;