If I've got a date string:
$date = "08/20/2009";
And I want to separate each part of the date:
$m = "08";
$d = "20";
$y = "2009";
How would I do so?
Is there a dedicated date function I should be using?
explode
will do the trick for that:
$pieces = explode("/", $date);
$d = $pieces[1];
$m = $pieces[0];
$y = $pieces[2];
Alternatively, you could do it in one line (see comments - thanks Lucky):
list($m, $d, $y) = explode("/", $date);