Simple Question: How to split date (08-17-2011) into month, day, year? PHP

Question

I have a variable called $orderdate and it is set to a date format like this mm-dd-yyyy.

In PHP how would I split this variable into $month, $day, $year?

Tha

Answer 1

If you are not certain about the input format you can also do the following:

$time  = strtotime($input);
$day   = date('d',$time);
$month = date('m',$time);
$year  = date('Y',$time);