Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated. How to rewrite this statement?

Question

I have the following statement which worked fine before PHP 5.3 using the split function:

list($year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec) = split( '[: -]', $post_timestamp );

After upgrading to PHP 5.3, I get the Deprecated warning:

Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated.

I am trying to parse a string with format like:

2010-08-10 23:07:58

into its component parts.

Answer 1

I think you want preg_split.

list($year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec) = preg_split('/[: -]/', $post_timestamp);

Answer 2

$dateTime = new DateTime('2010-08-10 23:07:58');

$year = $dateTime->format('Y');
$month = $dateTime->format('m');

You get the drill... Depending, on what you're going to do with it, using DateTime object might be more convenient than using six separate variables.

Answer 3

Just try to replace "split" with "explode" the newer version of PHP and MYSQL accept "explode" instead of "split"