Question

I have a field called “timestamp” in a database table which stores value in this format :- YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

I would like to split apart and then fetch the date (YYYY-MM-DD) in a variable and also the time (HH:MM:SS) in another variable. Example:

$timestamp = "2012-10-19 18:19:56";
$get_date = "2012-10-19";
$get_time = "18:19:56";

I would be glad if anyone can help out with this using php.

Answer 1

You could simply split the string by the space character using PHP’s explode() function –

$timestamp = "2012-10-19 18:19:56";
$splitTimeStamp = explode(" ",$timestamp);
$date = $splitTimeStamp[0];
$time = $splitTimeStamp[1];

Another way of doing this would be this would be to use strtotime() combined with date()–

$date = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($timestamp));
$time = date('H:i:s',strtotime($timestamp));