Obtaining characters

[farid]

Hi y'all!!

Well Im trying to find a php function that can obtain certain number of characters from a date, that is, if I have the value :

2005-05-05 10:40:50.00

I must obtain only: 2005-05-05

Thanks!! :cool:

[Velox Letum]

$mdate = '2005-05-05 10:40:50.00';
$mdate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($mdate));

[farid]

thanks velox!!!! :thumbsup:

[farid]

oh oooh!! it appears this thing:

Warning: date(): Windows does not support dates prior to midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970 in D:\inetpub\InetGREGION9\php\fichas\test.php on line 50

[marek_mar]

Switch to UNIX (or anything that supports negative timestamps)... or you could write a writearound for that but that requires lots of thinking which I'm not capable at the time :) .

EDIT: Oh I just read the title...
Tryed:

$date = substr($date, 0, 10);

[Velox Letum]

While marek's solution would work just as effectively, I believe the problem with mine was your date had a decimal value and strtotime() threw a wobbly.

[farid]

great !!! Thank you all!! :thumbsup: