Splitting date into chunks

[Jason Carlton]

I'm sure this is an easy one, but I can't seem to find it! I have the
date and time as:

# Nov 28, 2007, 11:11:14pm
$timestamp = 20071128231114;

In Perl, I would split this up as:

my ($year, $month, $day, $hr, $min, $sec) = $timestamp =~ /(\d{4})(\d
\d)(\d\d)(\d\d) (\d\d)(\d\d)/;

How do I do the same thing in PHP? I know that I can use substr, of
course, but there has to be a better way that I'm overlooking.

TIA,

Jason

[Bruno Rafael Moreira de Barros]

If I type in:
$timestamp = 20050714010317;
echo date('Y m d H i s', $timestamp);
Then it returns:
2038 01 18 22 13 44

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Then

$timestamp = 20050714010317;
$date = date('Y m d H i s', $timestamp);

$splitted_date = explode(' ',$date); // This is now an array
containing all the date parts.
echo $splitted_date[0]; // Prints the Year part of the date.

[BKDotCom]

On Nov 28, 10:13 pm, Jason Carlton <jwcarl...@gmai l.comwrote:

I'm sure this is an easy one, but I can't seem to find it! I have the
date and time as:

# Nov 28, 2007, 11:11:14pm
$timestamp = 20071128231114;

In Perl, I would split this up as:

my ($year, $month, $day, $hr, $min, $sec) = $timestamp =~ /(\d{4})(\d
\d)(\d\d)(\d\d) (\d\d)(\d\d)/;

How do I do the same thing in PHP? I know that I can use substr, of
course, but there has to be a better way that I'm overlooking.

TIA,

Jason

I'm a bit slow, but I'd accomplish it thusly:

$datetime = 20071128231114;
list($year, $month, $date, $hour, $minute, $second) =
sscanf($datetim e,'%4s%2s%2s%2s %2s%2s');