[SOLVED] Format A Date

[refiking]

I receive the date using a $date variable.  And it comes in this format:

 

20081810 or Ymd

 

How can I seperate this into

$month = 10

$year = 2008

$day = 18

 

Thanks in advance!

[ratcateme]

substr is good for this

like

$year = substr($date,0,4);
$month = substr($date,4,2);
$day = substr($date,6,2);

but that requires the month and day to have leading zeros

 

Scott.

 

[EKINdesigns]

$year = substr(0,4,$date);
$day = substr(4,2,$date);
$month= substr(6,2,$date);

 

I think that should work.

[EKINdesigns]

Strike mine...The haystack is supposed to be the first var of the function.