Don't forget that in cases like the one below, you can use the list() function to tighten things up a bit:
$start_date='2007-06-20';
list($start_year, $start_month, $start_day) = explode('-',$start_date);
I prefer using the date functions that some of the other people mentioned and only use the string functions to get date info when I have to.
If you use strtotime() or have the date in a serial format already, you can get a lot more than just month, day, year out of it using date(). But if all you really need is month, day, year then whichever method is easiest to work with.
-TG
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$start_date='2007-06-20';
$parts=explode('-',$start_date);
$start_year = $parts[0];
$start_month = $parts[1];
$start_day = $parts[2];
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