get day number of month php code example

Example 1: php grab month from date

$month = date("m",strtotime($mydate));

Example 2: php days in month

// For given month
echo cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 1, 2021);
// For current month
echo date('t');

Example 3: get month days in php

echo cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 8, 2009);