Twitter json + php

I am pulling the twitter json feed and parsing it with php. One of the values in the array is [created_at] => Wed Jun 22 06:19:31 +0000 2011 . However I only want the "Wed Jun 22".

I am currently using $data->created_at = substr($data->created_at, 0, 10);

but 开发者_开发知识库for example if a month/day has 4 characters it will mess it up so I need a better way to do this.

preg_match("/([a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+ [0-9]+)/", "Wed Jun 22 06:19:31 +0000 2011", $date);
$date = $date[1];

Or you can use strtotime to create a new date with php date function.

$new_date = date('D M n', strtotime($data->created_at));

You should look into PHP's DateTime class, especially DateTime::createFromFormat(). Creating a date/time object way cleaner solution than using substr().
Plus, you know, if you ever wanted to store year...

echo date('D M d',strtotime($array['created_at']));

DEMO