- var_dump: documentation ( source)
- date: documentation ( source)
- strtotime: documentation ( source)
<?php
$datestring = "November 16, 2013";
//$date = DateTime::createFromFormat("MMM dd , yyyy",$datestring);
$date = Date("M d, Y");
var_dump($date);
$datetime = strtotime($datestring);
var_dump(date('M',$datetime));