How extract years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds from a mysql date?

Question

In my mysql database I have dates like this: 2011-01-06 09:39:114525

and I need to extraxt separately years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds from it.

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Answer 1

I would like to suggest one more cleaner way. And this can be achieved without on any library or framework.

First, you should convert the datetime string to a timestamp (strtotime works on almost every format). Then using getdate as follows :

$dateAsTimestamp = strtotime("2011-01-06 09:39:11.45");
$dateTime = getdate($dateAsTimestamp);

The function returns all components of date and time as an associative array.

Array
(
    [seconds] => 11
    [minutes] => 39
    [hours] => 9
    [mday] => 6
    [wday] => 4
    [mon] => 1
    [year] => 2011
    [yday] => 5
    [weekday] => Thursday
    [month] => January
    [0] => 1294306751
)

Now can be accessed as per your requirement

echo($dateTime['hours']);
echo($dateTime['minutes']);
echo($dateTime['seconds']);

$MONTH = $dateTime['month'];

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