extract character from variable

[pitn]

Hello,

Can someone help me?

The input (webform) is a date like the following example (dd-mm-yyyy):
$date = $_POST['date'];        // for example $date contains 08-12-2006

How can I extract the day, month ans year seperately?
$day = ???            // what is the code to get the day (08) in the variable $day?
$month = ???        // what is the code to get the month (12) in the variable $month?
$year = ???          // what is the code to get the year (2006) in the variable $year?


Many Tx!

[marcus]

you could always just do

on your form make like the date:

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$date = date("d/m/y");
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then when grabbing it

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$date = $_POST[date]; //getting posted
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then to get each field

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$d1 = explode("/",$date);
//or explode("/",$_POST[date]);
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then:

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$day = $d1[1];
$month = $d1[2];
$year = $d1[3];
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[alpine]

one method:
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<?php

$date = $_POST['date']; // for example $date contains 08-12-2006
echo $day = substr($date,0,2); // 08
echo $month = substr($date,3,2); // 12
echo $year = substr($date,6,4); // 2006

?>

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[pitn]

mgallforever and alpine, it worked !! perfect !! Thank you both !