Splitting Datetime into a date and a time value - php

Question

Can someone give me a quick and dirty way to split a datetime (28-1-2011 14:32:55) into just the date (28-1-2011) and the time ( 14:32 ) or even better (2:32 PM) using PHP. Using a mySQL database as well.
Cheers

Answer 1

If you're using PHP > 5.2:
$myvalue = '28-1-2011 14:32:55';
$datetime = new DateTime($myvalue);
$date = $datetime->format('Y-m-d');
$time = $datetime->format('H:i:s');
Prior to PHP 5.2 mhitza gave a good answer.

Answer 2

In php you can use the date and strtotime functions for easy extraction.
$datetime = "28-1-2011 14:32:55";
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($datetime));
$time = date('H:i:s', strtotime($datetime));

Answer 3

if your source of data is MySQL:
SELECT DATE( date_field ) AS date_part, TIME( date_field ) AS time_part ....
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_time
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date
Edit :
to answer the question from comments (example):
WHERE DATE( date_field ) > '2017-01-01'

Answer 4

One simple instruction will do the trick
explode will transform datetime to an array
and list will sort the datetime array into its needed values
$datetime = "28-1-2011 14:32:55";
list($date, $time)=explode(' ', $datetime);
// check the result
echo "date:". $date;
echo "<br>time:". $time;
// further more you can easily split the date into
// year month and day
list($year, $month, $day)=explode('-', $date);

Answer 5

If you looking for a really quick and dirty solution.
$datetime = "28-1-2011 14:32:55";
$date_arr= explode(" ", $datetime);
$date= $date_arr[0];
$time= $date_arr[1];

Answer 6

if you want to parse in the date from your Mysql and you want to remove time
then you can use this function
$date1=date("Y-m-d",strtotime('$your database field'))

Answer 7

We can easily split DateTime(28-1-2011 14:32:55) into date and time in MySQL.
select SUBSTRING_INDEX("28-1-2011 14:32:55", " ",1) into #dateOnly;
select #dateOnly;
The output will be- 28-1-2011(Here we split the date from the DateTime)
select SUBSTRING_INDEX("28-1-2011 14:32:55", " ",-1) into #timeOnly;
select #timeOnly;
The output will be- 14:32:55(Here we split the time from the DateTime)
We can covert the time to am and pm format also
select SUBSTRING_INDEX("28-1-2011 14:32:55", " ",-1) into #timeOnly;
SELECT TIME_FORMAT(#timeOnly, "%h %i %s %p")into #time;
select #time;
The time format will become 02 32 55 PM