How can I just get the "Year" portion from the output of timespan() in CodeIgniter?

I have a Date of Birth field and trying to use the timespan function to get the age, but returns "28 Years, 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 15 Hours, 16 Minutes".

Any idea how I can just get the "28 Years" part?

Thanks!

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• There are many ways to do this, with the string in $date, like so:

  $date = '28 Years, 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 15 Hours, 16 Minutes';
  

  This will give you "28 Years"

  $yearsPart = substr($date, 0, strpos($date, 'Years') + 5);
  

  So will this:

  $parts = split(', ', $date);
  $yearsPart = $parts[0];
  

  From Kevin Chan

• I suggest you use PHP's strftime() function. Instead of using the CI's timespan().

  echo strftime('%Y', 1226239392);

  From Thorpe Obazee