split string of numbers php

[munnaz_2003]

Hey If i have a string of numbers eg:

$date = 200703241230

where it is: (year)(month)(day)(hour)(minute)
how can i split the string so i can have it like:

$date_year = 2007
$date_month = 03
$date_day = 24
$date_hour = 12
$date_minute = 30

so i can display it how i wish eg( 24/03/2007 12:30 )

thanks in advance for your help.
munnaz

[chronic]

One way you can do it (if your strings are always going to be the same length), is to use substr() and just use different offsets.

$date = "200703241230";
$date_year = substr($date, 0, 4);
// And so on 

[Bill Palmer]

<?php
        $date = 200703241230;

        preg_match('/^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})$/',$date,&$results);

        $year = $results[1];
        $month = $results[2];
        $day = $results[3];
        $hour = $results[4];
        $minute = $results[5];

        echo "$year $month $day $hour $minute";
?>

Probably not the easiest regex, but it's 2am.

[stereofrog]

echo date("d/m/Y H:i", strtotime($date)); 

strtotime

[Bill Palmer]

echo date("d/m/Y H:i", strtotime($date)); 

strtotime

That's a pretty cool function. I've never seen it before. I usually store all my dates as unix timestamps in the first place, so I've never needed it... but good to know!