Get Current Month of Date in php

To get the name of the current month in php, you can use the php date() function and pass “F”.

$month_name = date("F");

echo $month_name;

// Output:
April

If you want to get the current month number, you can use the php idate() function and pass ‘m’.

$month_number = idate('m');

echo $month_number ;

// Output:
4

When working with dates in php, the ability to easily get specific information or format our dates a certain way can be very valuable.

One piece of information which is useful is the month of a date.

We can easily get the current month from a date in php with the php date() function.

If you pass “F” to date, you get the full textual representation of the month of a given date.

Below shows how you can get the month name from a date in php.

$month_name = date('F');

echo $month_name;

// Output:
April

Getting the Current Month Number in php with idate()

There is also a php function which allows you to get the month number of the current month. The php idate() function formats a local time or date as an integer.

With idate(), we can get the current month number as shown below in the following php code.

$month_number = idate('m');

echo $month_number ;

// Output:
4

Hopefully this article has helped you understand how to get the current month in php.