echo part of variable?

[JackW]

I have a row in my data base that contains information like 10 Oct. It is all in one row and I need to echo just the three letters in one area and all of it in another. I am sure there is a way but can't seem to remember where I found it.Your help will be appreciated.Jack

[SirPaladin]

There are some string functions for you to use. Search in the PHP manual. I don`t remember the names of the functions. :)EDIT: Try here.

[boen_robot]

I'm no expert with PHP, but the first thing that comes to my mind is a regular expression:

ereg("([0-9]*) (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)", "10 Oct", $ArrayThatWillContainEachPart);

or perhaps the token-get-all() function:

$tokens = token_get_all('10 Oct');

Edited August 27, 2006 by boen_robot

[SirPaladin]

I'm no expert with PHP, but the first thing that comes to my mind is a regular expression:

ereg("([0-9]) (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)", "10 Oct", $ArrayThatWillContainEachPart);

or perhaps thetoken-get-all() function:

$tokens = token_get_all('10 Oct');

Since the months are all 3-letter, a string modifier using substr() would be better IMHO. But I never tried it.