How to get year and month from a date - PHP

Question

How to get year and month from a given date.

e.g. $dateValue = '2012-01-05';

From this date I need to get year as 2012 and month as January.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8967970/how-to-get-year-and-month-from-a-date-php

Answer 1

Use strtotime():

$time=strtotime($dateValue);
$month=date("F",$time);
$year=date("Y",$time);