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

You can use this code:

$dateValue = strtotime('2012-06-05');
$year = date('Y',$dateValue);
$monthName = date('F',$dateValue);
$monthNo = date('m',$dateValue);
printf("m=[%s], m=[%d], y=[%s]\n", $monthName, $monthNo, $year);