[Resolved] date() problem -- what am I doing wrong?

[timbr8ks]

Okay, all I want to do is extract the month out of the date.

I have this field in the database called 'menu_date'. After my mysql query, I end up with that date being:

$row['menu_date']

If I echo this, it shows up correctly:

echo $row[menu_date] // produces 2003-05-28

So, I want to say: if the month==05, then do something. But I'm having a devil of a time figuring out how to find out if the month is 05. I've tried:

$the_date=$row['menu_date'];
$this_month=date("m", $the_date);

and using strftime and mktime and a bunch of other stuff. I know it's simple, and I've read php.net on the topic as well as my books, but I'm struggling. Can you help?

Thanks.

[diego25]

This works:
<?
$the_date='2003-05-28';;
$this_month=date("m", strtotime($the_date));
print $this_month;
?>

Diego

[flasholinos]

ok try this!
$this_month=explode("-", $the_date);
print $this_month[1];