Get month of a given date

Question

Get month of a given date which is stored in a PHP time variable in 'Y-m-d' format

Answer 1

Try date_parse_from_format():

$date = "2010-08-12";
$d = date_parse_from_format("Y-m-d", $date);
echo $d["month"];

Answer 2

$date = "2010-10-10";
echo date("m", strtotime($date))?>