Obtener DIA / MES / AÑO de una fecha

[arlm1]

Buenas... yo tuve este mismo problema y lo resolvi usando la funcion date_parse
http://mx2.php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse.php

aki un ejemplo:

<?php
print_r(date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00.5"));
?>

te imprimiria esto:

Array
(
[year] => 2006
[month] => 12
[day] => 12
[hour] => 10
[minute] => 0
[second] => 0
[fraction] => 0.5
[warning_count] => 0
[warnings] => Array()
[error_count] => 0
[errors] => Array()
[is_localtime] =>
)

saludos!