Extracting day and month from a date string in PHP

[prashanth23in]

This is my first page

[code=html]
<form name="form1" method="post" action="ins_com p.php" onsubmit="retur n form_chk();">
[/code]

[Please use CODE tags when posting source code. Thanks! --pbmods]

this is next page where i'm printing the posted values

[code=php]
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_POST) ;
[/code]

its displaying

Array
(
    [sys_id] => Dbms0001
    [domain] => Discnet
    [User] => prashanth
    [emp_code] => Dt0125
    [os] => WINDOWS XP
    [ip_addr] => 192.168.10.31
    [date_ins] => 24-05-2007
    [months] => 4
    [years] => 2007
)

the thing i do want to print months and years ... please help anyone....

[pbmods]

Changed thread title to better match contents.

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Heya, prashanth23in. Welcome to TSDN!

Take a look at the date and strtotime functions. They should do just about exactly what you're looking for.