Sudden substr issue

[swatisonee]

I have been using

[code]$Month = substr($visit_date, 6, 2);[/code]

for all my forms to extract 09 from say 2006-09-08  .  However, i have just realised that this month ie November , date 2006-11-20 is returning -1 and not 11 .

Why could this be and what should i change it to ?

Thanks !
Swati

[printf]

all strings start at offset 0, so it would [b]5[/b] instead of [b]6[/b]

printf

[kenrbnsn]

If you have the date in that format, why use substr()? You can used a combination of the [url=http://www.php.net/date]date()[/url] and [url=http://www.php.net/strtotime]strtotime()[/url] functions:
[code]<?php
$visit = '2006-11-20';
$Month = date('m',strtotime($visit));
?>[/code]

Ken

[swatisonee]

Ken, Printf

Thanks. I find it odd that this has cropped up only in November . Could it be that the data looks at -1 and sees January ?

[code]$visit_date= $_POST["visit_date"];
$Month = substr($visit_date, 6, 2);[/code]