How to extract only 'Day' value from full 'Date' string?

Question

I have an array of Date values in the format of 'Y-m-d'. I want to loop over the array and only extract the day ('d') of each member, but can't figure out to split it. Do I use substrings in some way?

Put simply, I have '2010-11-24', and I want to get just '24' from that. The problem being the day could be either single or double figures.

Answer 1

If you have PHP < 5.3, use strtotime():

$string = "2010-11-24"; $timestamp = strtotime($string); echo date("d", $timestamp); 

If you have PHP >= 5.3, use a DateTime based solution using createFromFormat - DateTime is the future and can deal with dates beyond 1900 and 2038:

 $string = "2010-11-24";  $date = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d", $string);  echo $date->format("d");