Equivalent date functions in PHP ?

[eL_NiNo]

Hi there,

Got another question about PHP. I've succeeded in converting most of my ASP functions to PHP, but I don't understand quite well how date works.

Suppose i have a string, say $strTmp = '2002-01-12', how can i tell PHP this is a date ( Like CDate() ) and then extract month, day, year from it ?

Thanks in advance !

[phpman]

you can explode that string at the "-" and then use the month day and year or you can use date like so

$the_date = date(Y,m,d);

or
$year = date(Y);
$month = date(m);
$year = date(d);

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by eL_NiNo
Hi there,

Got another question about PHP. I've succeeded in converting most of my ASP functions to PHP, but I don't understand quite well how date works.

Suppose i have a string, say $strTmp = '2002-01-12', how can i tell PHP this is a date ( Like CDate() ) and then extract month, day, year from it ?

Thanks in advance !

The PHP documentation can be a valuable resource: http://www.php.net/

You can find information on the date function here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

As for telling PHP it's a date, that doesn't matter. There aren't specified variable types in PHP. Just as long as it's the right format for date, PHP will recognize it.