Help with PEAR:QuickForm Date

Hi, I'm new to PHP and PEAR and I'm setting up a simple form to read in some dates. The problem is that I now want to extract the day/month/year from the form and assign them to variables in my script. So the date is read in thru the following: $myForm->addElement('date','startDate','Date to start',$options); How do I get the information from startDate??? I tried below and other variants, but I'm unable to extract the day/month/year that was entered on my form. I'm not sure what format the startDate is in! $getTest = $myForm->exportValue('startDate'); Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks