Inputting Date

[Anon]

I've searched for this, but didn't find exactly what I'm looking for. I'm looking for code or an example so I can enter the date MM-DD-YYYY then convert it to the format MySQL uses.

Also, I'm looking to see how I can split the DATE to show the year only. For example, I have tblSomething with a column DATE. I want to view everything in tblSomething where the year of tblSomething.DATE equals the year of the date today. Thanks!

[Anon]

Ok, I've gotten the reverse of the date fixed I believe. I'm using:
<?php
$date = '8/20/2001';
list($month,$day,$year) = explode('/',$date);
$newdate = "$year-$month-$day";
print $newdate;
?>

It appears to be working fine. Can I do similar to get the $year?
$date = '8/20/2001';
list($month,$day,$year) = explode('/',$date);

Will I then have $year as a variable? Thanks guys!