Question

I have this piece of code which gets me a field from the database:

$end_date=$row1['end_date'];

If i print it it gives me something like: 25-09-2012
What i need is to get the month value, the year and date.
something like:

$month=09;
$day=25;
$year=2012;

How can i do that?
thanks!

Answer 1

In your case, you can use the explode function like this :

// store a string containing "25-09-2012"
$end_date = $row1['end_date'];

// split "25-09-2012" into an array of three elements
$thedate = explode("-", $end_date);

// retrieve the values
$month = $thedate[0]; // 25
$day = $thedate[1]; // 09
$year = $thedate[2]; // 2012