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 personally prefer using this shortcut. The output will still be the same, but you don't need to store the month and year in separate variables

$dateValue = '2012-01-05';
$formattedValue = date("F Y", strtotime($dateValue));
echo $formattedValue; //Output should be January 2012

A little side note on using this trick, you can use comma's to separate the month and year like so:

$formattedValue = date("F, Y", strtotime($dateValue));
echo $formattedValue //Output should be January, 2012