title: Simple Question: How to split date (08-17-2011) into month, day, year? PHP
body: <p>I have a variable called $orderdate and it is set to a date format like this mm-dd-yyyy.</p>
  
  <p>In PHP how would I split this variable into $month, $day, $year?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help.</p>