What is the recommended method in PHP to separate date and time components from a string containing both?

To separate date and time components from a string containing both in PHP, you can use the `DateTime` class to parse the string and then extract the date and time parts using the `format()` method with appropriate format specifiers. 

// Input string containing date and time
$dateString = "2022-01-15 13:45:30";

// Create a DateTime object from the input string
$dateTime = new DateTime($dateString);

// Extract date and time components
$date = $dateTime->format('Y-m-d');
$time = $dateTime->format('H:i:s');

// Output the separated date and time components
echo "Date: $date\n";
echo "Time: $time\n";

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