title: break apart formatted date into individual month/day/year hour/minute/second in php
body: <p>I have a date in the following format</p>
  
  <pre><code>November 18, 2009, 3:00PM
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can i break that up so that i can store each value as its own variable?</p>
  
  <p>such as...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$month //November
  $day //18
  $year //2009
  $hour //03
  $minute //00
  $ampm //PM
  </code></pre>