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

Use explode to split string

list($m,$d,$y)=explode('-',$date);