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I have a form made with the Drupal Form API, there is a date field which result I want to output to the user in an email.

I'm only getting array as output, so how do I access the keys and values?

This is my code:

$mailText .= 'Selected date: ' . preg_replace("/(\n|\r)/s", '', $form_state['return_value']['myform_date']);
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I'm not sure I understand the question...what's in the array? If it's $x = array('foo' => 'bar'), for example, you can get the value of foo with $x['bar'] –  Clive♦ Feb 9 at 16:07
    
array('year' => 2007, 'month' => 2, 'day' => 15) –  Johan Dahl Feb 9 at 16:12
    
And what problem are you having specifically when trying to access members of the array? –  Clive♦ Feb 9 at 16:42

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You can put your values through some date formatting using format_date(). You can change 'short' to another date type you have in Drupal such as 'medium' or 'long.' 

$day = $form_state['return_value']['myform_date']['day'];
$month = $form_state['return_value']['myform_date']['month'];
$year = $form_state['return_value']['myform_date']['year'];
$timestamp = strtotime($month . '/' . $day . '/' . $year), 
$date = format_date($timestamp, 'short');
$mailText .= 'Selected date: ' . $date;

Alternatively you can use a custom date format

$date = format_date($timestamp, 'custom', 'F j, Y');
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