How to get year and month from a date - PHP

Question

How to get year and month from a given date.

e.g. $dateValue = \'2012-01-05\';

From this date I need to get year as 2012

Answer 1

Using date() and strtotime() from the docs.

$date = "2012-01-05";

$year = date('Y', strtotime($date));

$month = date('F', strtotime($date));

echo $month