Get date, hour and minute as separate variables from a datetimestamp in PHP

Question

In PHP if I have a variable ($getTimeStamp) that follows the format 0000-00-00 00:00:00 (i.e. 2013-09-26 13:06:00).

What is the easiest way to get the date ($getDate), hour ($getHour) and minute ($getMinute) as separate variables?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use PHP DateTime class

$getTimeStamp = '2013-09-26 13:06:00';
$date = new \DateTime($getTimeStamp);

$dateString = $date->format('Y-m-d');
$hourString = $date->format('H');
$minuteString = $date->format('i');

Answer 2

It's not timestamp ;) Check what time() function returns, that's how timestamp looks like.

You can use something like that:

$time = strtotime($getTimeStamp);
$getDate = date('Y-m-d', $time);
$getHour = date('H', $time);
$getMinute = date('i', $time);