Getting time and date from timestamp with php

Question

in my database I have a time stamp column...which reflects a format like this: 2012-04-02 02:57:54

However I would like to separate them up into $date and $time.

after some research through the php manual...I found that date() , date_format() and strtotime() are able to help me to separate them...(not sure if I am right)

but I not very sure of how to code it out...

In my php file...the timestamp extracted would be $row['DATETIMEAPP'].

Will

$date= strtotime('d-m-Y',$row['DATETIMEAPP']); $time= strtotime('Gi.s',$row['DATETIMEAPP']); 

or

$date= date('d-m-Y',$row['DATETIMEAPP']); 

work?

Can i use date() to get the time as well??

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

$timestamp = strtotime($row['DATETIMEAPP']); 

gives you timestamp, which then you can use date to format:

$date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp); $time = date('Gi.s', $timestamp); 

Alternatively

list($date, $time) = explode('|', date('d-m-Y|Gi.s', $timestamp));