php current month code example

Example 1: php get day from date

$timestamp = strtotime('2009-10-22');

$day = date('D', $timestamp);
var_dump($day);

Example 2: php grab month from date

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

Example 3: get current month php

current month
  //half name in words
  date('M');
//full name in words
date('F');
//number
date('m');