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

A good approach is to use date_parse_from_format().

For your example:

$dateStr = '03-27-2015';
$dateArray = date_parse_from_format('m-d-Y', $dateStr);

This gives $dateArray as:

Array
(
    [year] => 2015
    [month] => 3
    [day] => 27
    [hour] => 
    [minute] => 
    [second] => 
...
)