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';
$yeararray = explode("-", $dateValue);

echo "Year : ". $yeararray[0];
echo "Month : ". date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $yeararray[1]));

Usiong explode() this can be done.