Help needed with date month and year?

[Solarpitch]

Hey,

 

I have a variable in my app that receives the month and year in this format: "January 2009"

 

I then need to break it up into its respective month number ie: "01" as its January and then the year "2009"

Just wondering how I can break it down so I can store it like

 

$month = 01;

$year = 2009;

 

I should mention I've been looking through http://ie.php.net/date but cant seem to find a solution I can adapt.

 

[Mark Baker]

look at strtotime() to convert your month and year into a timestamp value, then you can use date() to format it as you wish