php var to year and month

Question

$date ='20101015';

how to convert to $year = 2010,$month = 10, $day =15

thanks

Answer 1

You can use the PHP substring function substr as:

$year  = substr($date,0,4);  # extract 4 char starting at position 0.
$month = substr($date,4,2);  # extract 2 char starting at position 4.
$day   = substr($date,6);    # extract all char starting at position 6 till end.

If your original string as leading or trailing spaces this would fail, so its better feed substr trimmed input as. So before you call substr you can do:

$date = trim($date);

Answer 2

You can use substring function

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_substr.asp

$year=substr($date,0,4);
$month=substr($date,4,2);
$day=substr($date,6,2);

Answer 3

You can do it all in one go with

• sscanf — Parses input from a string according to a format

Example:

list($y, $m, $d) = sscanf('20101015', '%4d%2d%2d');

or

sscanf('20101015', '%4d%2d%2d', $y, $m, $d);