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'));

Answer 2

Check out PHP's date_parse function. Unless you're sure input will always be in a consistent format, AND you validate it first, it is much more stable and flexible, (not to mention easier), to let PHP try to parse the format for you.

e.g.

<?php
//Both inputs should return the same Month-Day-Year
print_r(date_parse("2012-1-12 51:00:00.5"));
print_r(date_parse("1/12/2012"));
?>