I have string with following format:
$date = "2012-07-22 17:48:24";
I want to get the year, month and date in the variables and ignore the time. I am trying following:
list($year, $month, $day) = split('[-]', $date);
This returns correct values to $year
and $month
, but the $day
gets: "22 17:48:24"
, while I want to get only 22.
Instead of exploding the value you could use a DateTime object:
<?php
$date = "2012-07-22 17:48:24";
$dateTime = new DateTime($date);
var_dump(array(
'year' => $dateTime->format('Y'),
'month' => $dateTime->format('m'),
'day' => $dateTime->format('d'),
));
This would be the most flexible option imho.
As @zerkms noted in his comment you could also use strtotime()
and date()
, but I find myself only using the DateTime
class lately. Not only because it has a nice OO API, but also because it will keep on working after the year 2038 :-). The comment is not wrong though.