Extract Year

[SkyRanger]

Hello,

 

I seem to be having a problem.  I am trying to extract the year from a date

 

2012-03-01
echo "2012";

I have tried this and it only displays 1969

$dateorig = "2012-03-01";
$new_year = date("Y", strtotime($dateorig));
echo $new_year;

 

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

That particular format isn't supported by strtotime(), but since you already have the date in a string, and php's date() function is rather slow, why not just explode it?

 

$date = '2012-06-03';
$year = explode('-', $date);
echo $year[0];

[SkyRanger]

It worked.  Thanks Pikachu, greatly appreciated.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Actually that format is supported by strtotime. If your original code didn't work, that's not your actual code or actual data. I'll guess the date was from someplace like a form or a database and it wasn't what you thought (probably an empty value.)

[Pikachu2000]

It is? I saw it in the list with slashes, but not hyphens. I must have overlooked it.