Get the Year/Month/Day from a datetime in php?

Question

I used date('w', timestamp) and date('w', timestamp) to know the day, date('n', timestamp) for months, etc.

Now I'm using datetime and I'd like to know what are the equivalent functions to get a day, a month, etc from a datetime.

PS: I know I could use UNIX_TIMESTAMP() in a SQL query but I prefer avoiding timestamps using in my code.

Answer 1

Use DateTime with DateTime::format()

$datetime = new DateTime($dateTimeString); echo $datetime->format('w'); 

Answer 2

Check out the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php

<?php $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); ?> 

Will output: 2000-01-01 00:00:00