Question

This sql call,

<div class="dateOnAd"><?php print $row['dttm_modified']; ?></div>

outputs:
2012-05-22 15:07:28.

I need to figure out a way to divide the output into different divs

<div class="example-date">
   <span class="day">31</span> 
   <span class="month">July</span> 
   <span class="year">2009</span>
</div>

Answer 1

<div class="example-date">
    <span class="day"><?php echo date('d', $row['ddtm_modified']); ?></span>
    <span class="month"><?php echo date('F', $row['ddtm_modified']); ?></span>
    <span class="year"><?php echo date('Y', $row['ddtm_modified']); ?></span>
</div>

You can read more about the date() function here: date.