Split Time into 3 Variables

Question

I have a time \"7:00 am\" that I need to split into $hour, $min, $ampm. Is there an easy way that I can split this in to 3 variables?

Answer 1

$time = '7:00 am';
$hour = date("g",$time);
$min = date("i",$time);
$ampm = date("a",$time);

http://php.net/manual/function.date.php