How to get Hours from Date in PHP & Cakephp?

Question

I want to get Only Hours From date by using PHP & Cakephp function.

$date = "2011-07-26 20:05:00";

$hours = ?

user_14073316 · Answer

The date_parse function will return a fulfilled array of a sections of a datetime. use it like this:

    $now = date(now()); // "2021-08-30 21:52:21"
    $open = date_parse($now)['hour']; // 21

user_10125724 · Answer

$pattern = '[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}'; preg_match('/'.$pattern.'/', '2011-07-26 20:05:00', $matches); echo $matches[0];