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

$dateValue = '2012-01-05';
$year = date('Y',strtotime($dateValue));
$month = date('F',strtotime($dateValue));