Question

I have stored date time in mysql from a tutorial as:
2011-02-10 01:21:39

From this, how can I extract the individual elements using php?
Say I just want the year?
or even just the complete date if thats not possible?

Answer 1

See the strtotime() function. This will convert your date string into a timestamp. Then use date() to pull out the parts you need:

$time = strtotime('a string containing some description of the time and date');
$year = date('Y', $time);