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

I will share my code:

In your given example date:

$dateValue = '2012-01-05';

It will go like this:

dateName($dateValue);



   function dateName($date) {

        $result = "";

        $convert_date = strtotime($date);
        $month = date('F',$convert_date);
        $year = date('Y',$convert_date);
        $name_day = date('l',$convert_date);
        $day = date('j',$convert_date);


        $result = $month . " " . $day . ", " . $year . " - " . $name_day;

        return $result;
    }

and will return a value: January 5, 2012 - Thursday