PHP Parse Date String

Question

If I\'ve got a date string:

$date = \"08/20/2009\";

And I want to separate each part of the date:

$m = \"08\";
$d = \"20\";         


        

Answer 1

For internationalized date parsing, see IntlDateFormatter::parse - http://php.net/manual/en/intldateformatter.parse.php

For example:

$f = new \IntlDateFormatter('en_gb', \IntlDateFormatter::SHORT, \IntlDateFormatter::NONE);
$dt = new \DateTime();
$dt->setTimestamp($f->parse('1/2/2015'));