Yii2 date format slash probelm

Yii 2.0
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Yii::$app->formatter->asDatetime($model->date_in, "short");

when I use the formatter I get the date as ‘04/10/19 12:12’ but I want it to be like ‘04-10-19 12:12’ ?

can it be done by a standart way like configuring the formatter compnent in web.php ?

this is what I got in web.php
'formatter' => [ 'class' => 'yii\i18n\Formatter', 'dateFormat' => 'php:d-M-Y', 'datetimeFormat' => 'php:d-M-Y H:i:s', 'timeFormat' => 'php:H:i:s', 'decimalSeparator' => ',', 'thousandSeparator' => ' ', 'currencyCode' => 'XAF', ],

2

Yes and then the defaults are used when you don’t pass the format argument (like "short" in your case).

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so normaly it’s supposed to format the give date according to the format in web.php
which is ‘date_format’ => ‘php:d-M-Y’ right ?
if it is right why I get the date as ‘04/10/19’ ?
I want it to be ‘04-10-19’ ?

4

php:d-M-Y gives you 04-Oct-2019.

To get 04-10-19 use php:d-m-Y or dd-MM-y (second one is ICU format).

5

thank you so much for your time and answer @Bizley ,

changing the format to ‘php:d-m-Y’ resolved my problem.