Problem with date

[t.bo]

Hi everybody,

I want to get the month, year and date out of my complete date (when enterred).

Code : [code]<?
$dat = 2006-07-24;

$year = substr($dat,0,2);
$month = substr($dat,3,2);
$day = substr($dat,6,2);

echo "year is $year<br>";
echo "month is $month<br>";
echo "day is $day<br>"

?>
[/code]

It displays incorrect numbers.
What im I doing wrong?

Grtz and thanks in advance

[hackerkts]

You can try to use explode();

[code]<?php
$dat = "2006-07-24";
$date = explode("-", $dat);
echo "year is ". $date[0] ." <br>";
echo "month is ". $date[1] ." <br>";
echo "day is ". $date[2] ." <br>";
?>[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

Or
[code]<?php
$dt = "2006-07-04";
list($year,$month,$day) = explode('-',$dt);
echo "year is $year<br>";
echo "month is $month<br>";
echo "day is $day";
?>[/code]
or
[code]<?php
$dt = "2006-07-24";
echo date('\y\e\a\r \i\s Y\<\b\r\>\m\o\n\t\h \i\s F\<\b\r>\d\a\y \i\s d',strtotime($dt));
?>[/code]

Ken

[t.bo]

Ok thanks guys, helped me a lot.
Now ... I'm making a calendar. The user uploads an event with title and date (ex. 2006-07-24).

Then the title of the current month should output as a title and then the events ordered by date below.

This is my code : [code]<?php
$currentmonth = date("m");

?>
<h1>Agenda</h1>

<table width="100%"  border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<?php
include('dbconnect.php');
$sql = mysql_query("select * from agenda where monthfield = '$currentmonth'") or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql))
{
$event = $row["eventfield"];
$id = $row["idfield"];
$url = $row["urlfield"];
$date = $row["date"];
$month = $row["monthfield"];



echo "<tr><td><h2>$month</h2></td></tr>";
echo  "<tr><td><a href='$url'>$event</a></td>";
echo  "<td>$date<td></tr>";
}
?>
</table>[/code]

1.) I find this code kinda stupid because the user has to enter the number of the month twice. So im looking for the code that the month can be selected from the main date formfield. (2006-[color=green]07[/color]-24) and that that number can be used to output only current month events. I read that the function DATE_FORMAT has to be used?

2.) My current code does not work like it should because it still displays every month and not only the current month.

[t.bo]

Can anyone help me use the DATE_format function?

thanks in advance

[kenrbnsn]

Have you read the manual page (http://www.php.net/date)?

Ken

[t.bo]

Thats help for php date() function and sorts.. But i need date stuff in MySQL.
On mysql.com its a little too much and way to many functions...

[ryanlwh]

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html

scroll down a bit and you should see DATE_FORMAT and it's usage