Question

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 special date function I should be using? Or something else?

Thanks!

Answer 1

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);