Explode Function on Date

PHP
1

Hi,

I’m currently using the follow code to explode a date:

list($y, $m, $d) = explode('-', substr($postted_date, 0, 9));

The postted_date looks like this:

2011-07-26 17:18:20

Its definitely breaking up the date to list the year, month and day, but for example with the above date for month its only displaying the ‘7’ and I need it to display the month as ‘07’. Same case with the day.

Suggestions?

Thanks

2

You’re not taking in account the time part of the string, which is getting tacked on the end of $d. :slight_smile:


<?php
list($y, $m, $d) = sscanf('2011-07-26 17:18:20', '%d-%d-%d %s');
3

The 9 part means its only reading the first 9 characters in the date.

I did try your code though and still only returned the date as 7, no 07. :frowning:

4

And I need the first 10 characters of the date…

Now its working:

list($y, $m, $d) = explode('-', substr($postted_date, 0, 10));
5

Could also just push the string into a datetime object and reference them from there, that way you dont have to worry about string lengths and such.