[RESOLVED] Pulling the Month out of American Date Format

[RayAdams23]

I actually have two questions;

1. Is there an easy way to search these Forums for prior post - like in this case Date Formatting?

2. I have a date, for example, 04/21/2009 in American format and want to pull out just the Month to a 3 digit month (APR in this case).

I tried:

$acct_period = "04/21/2009";
$acct_period = date("M", $acct_period);

but this results in giving me the month (DEC).

Thanks for any help,
Ray

[dagon]

1. theres a search on the menu at the top

2.

$acct_period = "04/21/2009";
$acct_period = date("M", strtotime($acct_period));

echo $acct_period;

[bradgrafelman]

Also, if you know the format is consistent, you might consider using [man]mktime/man to explicitly state the numerical values for the month/day/etc. Here's an example why this might be best:

echo date("M", strtotime("02-03-2009")); // Mar
echo date("M", strtotime("02/03/2009")); // Feb
echo date("M", strtotime("02.03.2009")); // Mar

[RayAdams23]

Thanks Dragon that took care of the issue.