How can leading zeros be preserved in date formatting in PHP?

When formatting dates in PHP, leading zeros in day and month values may be removed by default. To preserve leading zeros, you can use the "d" and "m" format characters in the date() function with the str_pad() function to add leading zeros where necessary. 

$date = '2022-05-07';
$formatted_date = date('d/m/Y', strtotime($date));
echo $formatted_date; // Output: 07/05/2022

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