Get month of a given date

Get month of a given date which is stored in a PHP time var开发者_JS百科iable in 'Y-m-d' format

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Try date_parse_from_format():

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

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

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

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

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

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You can use date() and strtotime():

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