PArsing date??

[jwwceo]

I have a variable in date format YYYY-MM-DD.

 

How do I parse out the YYYY, the MM, and the DD so I can use them on their own???

 

James

[fert]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

[PFMaBiSmAd]

$date = '2007-12-16';
preg_match('/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})/',$date,$date_parts);

 

This puts the year, month, and day $date_parts[1] through $date_parts[3].

[kenrbnsn]

You can use strtotime() in conjunction with the date() function, or you can just explode the string on "-" and assign the the exploded segments to variables.

<?php
$date = '2007-12-16';
list($year,$month,$day)  = explode('-',$date);
echo 'Year: ' . $year . "<br>\n";
echo 'Month: ' . $month . "<br>\n";
echo 'Day: ' . $day . "<br>\n";
?>

 

Ken