Question

In my database I have a time stamp column…which reflects a format like this: 2012-04-02 02:57:54

However I would like to separate them up into $date and $time.

After some research through the php manual…I found that date(), date_format() and strtotime() are able to help me to separate them…(not sure if I am right)

But I am not very sure of how to code it out…

In my php file…the timestamp extracted would be $row['DATETIMEAPP'].

Will

$date = strtotime('d-m-Y',$row['DATETIMEAPP']);
$time = strtotime('Gi.s',$row['DATETIMEAPP']);

or

$date = date('d-m-Y',$row['DATETIMEAPP']);

work?

Can I use date() to get the time as well??

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

$timestamp = strtotime($row['DATETIMEAPP']);

gives you timestamp, which then you can use date to format:

$date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp);
$time = date('Gi.s', $timestamp);

Alternatively

list($date, $time) = explode('|', date('d-m-Y|Gi.s', $timestamp));