Get month of a given date

Question

Get month of a given date which is stored in a PHP time variable in 'Y-m-d' format

Answer 1

$parts = explode('-',$your_date_variable_in_php);
$month = $parts[1];

Answer 2

$date = "2010-10-10";
echo date("m", strtotime($date))?>

Answer 3

Try date_parse_from_format():

$date = "2010-08-12";
$d = date_parse_from_format("Y-m-d", $date);
echo $d["month"];

Answer 4

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

use this link . I think your problem is solved for any date format.

Answer 5

You can use date() and strtotime():

<?php
    $date = "2010-08-13";
    echo date("m",strtotime($date))."\n";
?>

Answer 6

is it really stored in PHP? Not in some database?
month(datefield) can do it in mysql query for example

Answer 7

echo date("F", strtotime("2010-08-13"));