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

$dateValue = strtotime($q);

$yr = date("Y", $dateValue) ." "; 
$mon = date("m", $dateValue)." "; 
$date = date("d", $dateValue);