substr concat with another substr??

[scriderpsd]

This seems to be very simple but I can't find a function to do this for me.

I have a variable $from_date which contains the value 04/27/2007 and I want to put into the database '0407'. I can use substr to grab the first two chars and the last two chars but how do I hook them together? Is there a smarter way to go about this than to use substr???

Thanks,

Scott

[NogDog]

$mmyy = substr($from_date, 0, 2) . substr($from_date, -2);

[Installer]

Or:

$mmyy = date('my', strtotime($from_date));