Answers for "how to get the month from a date in php"

get current month php

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

php grab month from date

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

php check new month

You can use date_parse to parse almost any date format into its components. For example:

$date = date_parse("2012-01-02");
var_dump($date);
Will output:

array(12) {
  ["year"]=>
  int(2012)
  ["month"]=>
  int(1)
  ["day"]=>
  int(2)
  ["hour"]=>
  bool(false)