Current month in PHP code example

Example 1: php grab month from date

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

Example 2: get current month php

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

Example 3: get month days in php

echo cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 8, 2009);