extract date from datetime php code example

Example 1: extract date from DateTime object php

<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
?>

Example 2: php extract time from datetime

$time = '2013-01-22 10:45:45';

echo $time = date("H:i:s",strtotime($time));