If you are pulling $start_date from a database, depending on the format you could use something like the following: Assuming the data is 20070215. Connect and query your database, get the result and assign it to a variable. $start_date = $my_result_row['start_date']; $start_year = substr($start_date, 0, 4); $start_month = substr($start_date, 4, 2); $start_day = substr($start_date, 6, 2); Now you will have variables for the entire date, the year, the month and the day to play around with however you want. On 6/20/07, Fredrik Thunberg <thunis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ron Piggott skrev: > How do I break $start_date into 3 variables --- 4 digit year, 2 digit > month and 2 digit day? > > $start_year = ; > $start_month = ; > $start_day = ; > > Of course depending on what $start_date looks like, but this should work most of the time: $timestamp = strtotime( $start_date ); $start_year = date( "Y", $timestamp ); $start_month = date( "m", $timestamp ); $start_day = date( "d", $timestamp ); /T -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
