Splitting Datetime into a date and a time value

Question

Can someone give me a quick and dirty way to split a datetime (28-1-2011 14:32:55) into just the date (28-1-2011) and the time ( 14:32 ) or even better (2:32 PM) using PHP.

Answer 1

One simple instruction will do the trick

explode will transform datetime to an array

and list will sort the datetime array into its needed values

$datetime = "28-1-2011 14:32:55";
list($date, $time)=explode(' ', $datetime);

// check the result
echo "date:". $date;
echo "
time:". $time;

// further more you can easily split the date into 
// year month and day 
list($year, $month, $day)=explode('-', $date);